# Heat stroke, syncope at Melhorn Sales Service & Trucking Company
> OSHA SIR `2024076128` · 7/9/2024 · MIDDLETOWN, DELAWARE
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Heat stroke, syncope
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to environmental heat  outdoor
- **Source:** Heat environmental
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Melhorn Sales Service & Trucking Company
- **Location:** 366 Warwick Road, MIDDLETOWN, DELAWARE, 19709
- **NAICS:** 484220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been loading trucks with chickens. The employee was hospitalized for heat stroke/heat exhaustion.

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