# Heat exhaustion, fatigue at Tnemec Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025087777` · 8/7/2025 · NORTH KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Heat exhaustion, fatigue
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to environmental heat  unspecified
- **Source:** Heat environmental
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Tnemec Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 123 West 23rd Avenue, NORTH KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, 64116
- **NAICS:** 325510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At about 10:30 a.m. on August 7, 2025, a warehouse technician working for Tnemec Company, Inc., began sweating profusely a half-hour into their shift. The employee was using a forklift to move staged pallets of paint to a shrink-wrapper, shrink-wrap the pallets, and then load the pallets onto a truck using a forklift. The employee became ill about two hours later and was hospitalized for heat-related illness.

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