# Effects of heat and light, n.e.c. at Dejean Companies
> OSHA SIR `2016087406` · 8/9/2016 · DEER PARK, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Effects of heat and light, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to environmental heat
- **Source:** Heat-environmental
## Employer
- **Name:** Dejean Companies
- **Location:** 41 Tidal Road, DEER PARK, TEXAS, 77536
- **NAICS:** 236210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee on a scaffold had been welding on a pipe structure for 8 to 8.5 hours. When he came down off of the scaffold, he exhibited signs and symptoms of dehydration, hyperglycemia, and heat exhaustion, requiring hospitalization.

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