# Heat stroke, syncope at J. Franco Reforestation Inc
> OSHA SIR `2025076788` · 7/14/2025 · PAGOSA SPRINGS, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Heat stroke, syncope
## Cause
- **Event:** Forest fire or wildfire
- **Source:** Trees
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** J. Franco Reforestation Inc
- **Location:** 180 Pagosa Street, PAGOSA SPRINGS, COLORADO, 81147
- **NAICS:** 115310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was fighting a fire in the mountains of Colorado for approximately six hours. At the end of the shift, he was hiking back to the crew vehicles and experienced two seizures and fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized. Dehydration from heat of the fire and altitude sickness may have contributed to the seizures.

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