# Heat exhaustion, prostration at DC Alabama, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018076950` · 7/11/2018 · MOUNT MEIGS, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Heat exhaustion, prostration
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to environmental heat
- **Source:** Heat-environmental
## Employer
- **Name:** DC Alabama, Inc.
- **Location:** 1940 Ohio Ferry Road, MOUNT MEIGS, ALABAMA, 36057
- **NAICS:** 331419
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On July 11, 2018, an employee was in the locker room after working near an extremely hot smelting furnace when he became disoriented and experienced nausea and fatigue. He was hospitalized for heat exhaustion.

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