Incident date: 2023-07-14
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was adjusting a pipe brace to stabilize a girder on the barge. As he was swinging a sledgehammer to extend the pipe brace he started experiencing dizziness, lethargy, and numbness. The employee suffered dehydration due to heat.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure to environmental heat
code_source: title: Heat-environmental
code_nature: title: Effects of heat and light, n.e.c.
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate