# Heat exhaustion, prostration at Waste Pro USA, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022054531` · 5/25/2022 · ATTAPULGUS, 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:** Waste Pro USA, Inc.
- **Location:** Hwy. 27 North, ATTAPULGUS, GEORGIA, 39815
- **NAICS:** 562119
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A trash pick-up helper was riding as a passenger enroute to a landfill when he became ill. The employee was hospitalized with heat exhaustion.

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