# Heat exhaustion, prostration at Balcones Resources (Recycling)
> OSHA SIR `2019088318` · 8/13/2019 · AUSTIN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Heat exhaustion, prostration
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to environmental heat
- **Source:** Heat-environmental
## Employer
- **Name:** Balcones Resources (Recycling)
- **Location:** 4001 Caven Road, AUSTIN, TEXAS, 78744
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a roll-off truck when he began to feel a tingling in his arm and became short of breath. He was hospitalized for heat stress/exhaustion.

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