# Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified at Kinder Morgan Production Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017010239` · 1/9/2017 · IRAAN, 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:** Hydrogen sulfide
## Employer
- **Name:** Kinder Morgan Production Company, LLC
- **Location:** Yates Field Production, IRAAN, TEXAS, 79744
- **NAICS:** 211111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was preparing to shoot a fluid level on a well. He screwed an echo gun onto the well casing and opened the casing valve. When the pressure hit the gun, the outside of the casing valve threads failed and the pressure popped, releasing H2S (hydrogen sulfide) gas into the employee's face.

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