Incident date: 2019-08-12
NAICS industry code: 562119

An employee was performing garbage collection duties (riding on the outside of a trash collection vehicle, collecting garbage from the curb, and putting it into the collection vehicle) when he began to feel flushed and nauseated and stopped sweating. He was hospitalized for dehydration.

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