Real-life Accident
Heat Stroke
A male laborer died from heat stroke while sawing boards to make concrete forms for an addition to a factory.
He worked until 5:00 pm that day without eating or drinking. The temperature reached 90 deg. F. and the day was quite humid. He was in the parking lot on his way to his vehicle when he apparently collapsed beside his vehicle. When EMS arrived, they recorded the laborer's body temperature as 107 degrees F. The laborer was transported to a local hospital where he died the next day with an internal body temperature of 108 degrees F. Death was listed by the coroner as due to heat stroke.