# Heat exhaustion, prostration at Aunt Kitty's Foods
> OSHA SIR `2018099220` · 9/6/2018 · VINELAND, 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:** Aunt Kitty's Foods
- **Location:** 270 North Mill Rd., VINELAND, NEW JERSEY, 08360
- **NAICS:** 311421
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At 9:00 a.m., an employee began a shift loading crates full of cans into pressure cookers. At about 11:30, he began to feel cramping. By the end of his shift, at about 6:30, his cramping had worsened. 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*