{"id":1521590,"date":"2026-07-06T22:42:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1521590"},"modified":"2026-07-06T22:42:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:42:46","slug":"ups-investigates-after-driver-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1521590","title":{"rendered":"UPS investigates after driver collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"TYLER – UPS announced on Monday that they\u2019re investigating allegations that Tyler workers were told not to call 911 for heat-related incidents, after a local driver collapsed from heat recently, according to our news partner, KETK.<\/p>\n

In a video shared to the Teamsters Local 767\u2018s social media pages, local president and principal officer Dave Reeves stopped by the UPS warehouse in Tyler last week to remind workers to call 911 immediately if they experience the symptoms of heat illness.<\/p>\n

Reeves said that on June 26, a UPS driver collapsed from heat and another driver had to call 911 to get them help. Reeves claimed that management had previously informed workers not to contact 911 immediately in the case of a heat-related incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we eat lunch together and y\u2019all walk in and y\u2019all see this guy\u2019s lying on the ground and he\u2019s puking on himself in a convenience store, get your phone out and dial 911,\u201d Reeves said in the video. \u201cNo more bulls**ting around with these guys, we have it in a message where they\u2019re saying don\u2019t call 911.\u201d<\/p>\n

KETK News has contacted UPS about this incident and a company spokesperson said they are doing an investigation into these serious allegations, since they train their management to call 911 in cases like this.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe health and safety of our people is our number one priority. We take these allegations seriously and are investigating the incident,\u201d a UPS spokesperson told KETK News on Monday. \u201cWe train our management team and employees to call 911 for anyone experiencing signs of heat exhaustion or heat stroke. Any deviation from our policies will be promptly addressed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYLER – UPS announced on Monday that they\u2019re investigating allegations that Tyler workers were told not to call 911 for heat-related incidents, after a local driver collapsed from heat recently, according to our news partner, KETK. In a video shared to the Teamsters Local 767\u2018s social media pages, local president and principal officer Dave Reeves … Continue reading UPS investigates after driver collapses<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8661,"featured_media":1521613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1521590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-09 01:19:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1521590"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1521618,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521590\/revisions\/1521618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1521613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1521590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1521590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1521590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}