# Heat exhaustion, prostration at US Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018088963` · 8/29/2018 · PERTH AMBOY, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Heat exhaustion, prostration
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to environmental heat
- **Source:** Heat-environmental
## Employer
- **Name:** US Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 1051 Amboy Ave., PERTH AMBOY, NEW JERSEY, 08861
- **NAICS:** 424410
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was delivering cases of food product from his tractor trailer when he began feeling sick and having cramps. He was hospitalized with a kidney injury and heat exhaustion. The indoor temperature at the customer location was over 100 degrees with high humidity.

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