"Racked by extreme heat, one worker died on the job. His story is a warning", August 3 2024

Justin "Cory" Foster, a lineman who often traveled to storm-ravaged communities to help restore electricity, was used to working in searing summer weather as he perched atop utility poles to install wires. But as the heat index climbed to 113 degrees Fahrenheit on a job in Marshall, Texas, last year, the temperature baked his body.

His head hurt, his legs cramped and he threw up, Foster later told his fiancee Amanda Hightower. Co-workers drove him back to their hotel, where he drank fluids, stripped off his clothes and took a cold shower.

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What happened to Foster, an otherwise healthy 35-year-old underscores the perils of prolonged exposure to extreme heat and how deeply it can damage the body if not treated properly.

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