# Heat exhaustion, prostration at Cox Administrative Offices
> OSHA SIR `2021076358` · 7/30/2021 · AUGUSTA, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Heat exhaustion, prostration
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to environmental heat
- **Source:** Heat-environmental
## Employer
- **Name:** Cox Administrative Offices
- **Location:** 1201 Ada St., AUGUSTA, KANSAS, 67010
- **NAICS:** 517919
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attaching communications cable to tensioned strand wire using a lashing device from the ground and alternating work tasks to include working from a bucket truck. The employee began to display signs of heat exhaustion and was hospitalized.

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