# Heat syncope at Kokosing Construction Company
> OSHA SIR `2016087113` · 8/2/2016 · MINERAL WELLS, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Heat syncope
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to environmental heat
- **Source:** Heat-environmental
## Employer
- **Name:** Kokosing Construction Company
- **Location:** I-77 Milemarker 169, MINERAL WELLS, WEST VIRGINIA, 26120
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On August 2, 2016, at approximately 5:15 p.m., an employee who had been welding pile splices and performing pile-driving work began to feel ill and lost consciousness. The employee was hospitalized for heat-related illness.

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