Incident date: 2023-08-24
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was working as a groundsman on a wind farm installing underground cable in open fields using a trencher. The outdoor temperatures were very high for multiple days and reached 105 degrees. The employee suffered heat 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