# Heat stroke, syncope at Walmart
> OSHA SIR `2025066121` · 6/25/2025 · HANOVER, PENNSYLVANIA
## 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:** Walmart
- **Location:** 495 Eisenhower Drive, HANOVER, PENNSYLVANIA, 17331
- **NAICS:** 452111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pushing carts outside in temperatures averaging 85 F when he experienced leg pain. He went inside to check himself and found palm-sized rashes on his legs. After a few minutes, he lost consciousness. The employee was hospitalized for heat stroke.

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