# Heat exhaustion, fatigue at Gerdau
> OSHA SIR `2025087857` · 8/8/2025 · FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Heat exhaustion, fatigue
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to environmental heat  indoor
- **Source:** Heat environmental
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Gerdau
- **Location:** 5225 Planters Road, FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS, 72916
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On August 8, 2025, an employee developed muscle cramps and dizziness. Later, while working on a plant floor, he developed full-body cramps. He was hospitalized, suffering from head exhaustion.

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