# Heat exhaustion, prostration at United Parcel Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016098444` · 9/7/2016 · GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Heat exhaustion, prostration
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to environmental heat
- **Source:** Heat-environmental
## Employer
- **Name:** United Parcel Service, Inc.
- **Location:** 200 SW 62nd Blvd, GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA, 32607
- **NAICS:** 492110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was delivering packages weighing between less than a pound to 50 pounds at offices in a strip mall when he felt ill. He was hospitalized and treated for heat exhaustion.

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