# Multiple effects of heat and light at U.S. Postal Service
> OSHA SIR `2017076187` · 7/6/2017 · CARROLLTON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple effects of heat and light
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to environmental heat
- **Source:** Heat-environmental
## Employer
- **Name:** U.S. Postal Service
- **Location:** 110 Thomas Newell Way, CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, 30117
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While loading a truck, an employee began to feel ill and experienced chest pains. The employee was hospitalized for potential heat stress, dehydration.

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