Incident date: 2023-08-17
NAICS industry code: 491110

On August 17, 2023, a mail carrier was waiting near a customer's door during a package delivery when they began to experience back pain. The employee stumbled backward and fell onto the driveway. They were hospitalized with dehydration and kidney symptoms related to heat illness.

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