# Heat exhaustion, prostration at Ports America, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016065200` · 6/13/2016 · GALVESTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Heat exhaustion, prostration
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to environmental heat
- **Source:** Heat-environmental
## Employer
- **Name:** Ports America, Inc.
- **Location:** 1400 Harbor Side Drive, GALVESTON, TEXAS, 77550
- **NAICS:** 488320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At approximately 2:30 p.m., an employee was lashing and unlashing cargo when he became overheated and disoriented. He was hospitalized with heat exhaustion.

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