Incident date: 2022-07-18
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee had worked a shift with a work crew on a highway reconstruction project. During the shift, the employees took turns operating a chipping hammer for 10-20 minutes at a time. The employee also used a shovel to remove debris from the area. Toward the end of the shift, the employee experienced symptoms of heat-related illness and was hospitalized.

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