# Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk at Rescar Companies, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20161110945` · 11/21/2016 · GORDON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
## Cause
- **Event:** Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
- **Source:** Sulfur and sulfur compounds, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Confined spaces on vehicles, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Rescar Companies, Inc.
- **Location:** 109 BALL PARK ROAD, GORDON, GEORGIA, 31031
- **NAICS:** 336510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to clean molten sulfur from the inside of a rail tank car with a pressure washer when he was exposed to an off-gassing of the molten sulfur. He was hospitalized with burns to his lungs.

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