# Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified at Oxy Vinyls
> OSHA SIR `2015085986` · 8/21/2015 · LA PORTE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
- **Source:** Sulfuric acid
- **Secondary source:** Pumps
## Employer
- **Name:** Oxy Vinyls
- **Location:** 2880 Park Rd. 1836, LA PORTE, TEXAS, 77571
- **NAICS:** 325211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On August 21, 2015, at 8:30 p.m., an employee was starting a pump when an expansion joint failed, releasing sulfuric acid into the atmosphere. The employee inhaled sulfuric acid fumes as he was evacuating the area. He was hospitalized.

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