# Heat exhaustion, prostration at EXIDE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2015075156` · 7/28/2015 · FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Heat exhaustion, prostration
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to environmental heat
- **Source:** Heat-environmental
## Employer
- **Name:** EXIDE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- **Location:** 4115 ZERO STREET, FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS, 72908
- **NAICS:** 335911
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a pasting machine when he began feeling ill. He went to the break room and experience a rapid heart beat. He was hospitalized overnight for heat exhaustion.

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