# Effects of heat and light, n.e.c. at Republic Plastics, LTD.
> OSHA SIR `2017088189` · 8/25/2017 · MC QUEENEY, 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:** Republic Plastics, LTD.
- **Location:** 355 Schumann Road, MC QUEENEY, TEXAS, 78123
- **NAICS:** 326113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While performing maintenance activities, an employee began to feel ill, vomited, and sweated profusely. He started to have involuntary muscle spasms and difficulty speaking, requiring hospitalization for dehydration and other heat-related symptoms.

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