# Heat exhaustion, prostration at Joshen Paper & Packaging
> OSHA SIR `2021075540` · 7/7/2021 · MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Heat exhaustion, prostration
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to environmental heat
- **Source:** Heat-environmental
## Employer
- **Name:** Joshen Paper & Packaging
- **Location:** 8133 North Granville Woods Road, MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, 53223
- **NAICS:** 423850
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was driving around and making deliveries on July 7, 2021. It was a humid, 92-degree day and the delivery truck's air conditioning failed. On returning to the facility at 5:00 p.m., the employee was hot and sweaty, with incoherent speech. The employee was hospitalized, suffering from heat exhaustion and kidney failure.

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