# Heat exhaustion, fatigue at Earl W. Colvard, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2025088528` · 8/26/2025 · JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Heat exhaustion, fatigue
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to environmental heat  indoor
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Earl W. Colvard, Inc
- **Location:** 570 Henderson Rd, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, 32254
- **NAICS:** 441320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working in the baking chambers of the tire retread center for 5.5-6 hours in approximately 100-degree heat. He developed severe pain and full body cramping. The employee was hospitalized with severe dehydration and heat exhaustion resulting in back pain and a kidney injury.

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