# Heat exhaustion, prostration at Townsend Tree Service
> OSHA SIR `2020087631` · 8/12/2020 · CUMMING, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Heat exhaustion, prostration
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to environmental heat
- **Source:** Heat-environmental
## Employer
- **Name:** Townsend Tree Service
- **Location:** In field near power lines at, CUMMING, GEORGIA, 30028
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working in the fields chopping bushes and developed muscle cramps. The employee was hospitalized for a muscle injury and heat exhaustion.

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