# Heat exhaustion, prostration at S.C. Jones Services Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015063738` · 6/17/2015 · NAVAL BASE, VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Heat exhaustion, prostration
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to environmental heat
- **Source:** Heat-environmental
## Employer
- **Name:** S.C. Jones Services Inc.
- **Location:** Norfolk Naval Base, NAVAL BASE, VIRGINIA, 23511
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was completing general ground maintenance work using a weed eater when he began to feel nauseous and dizzy. The employee fainted and was hospitalized for heat exhaustion.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*