# Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified at Formosa Plastics Corporation, Texas
> OSHA SIR `20201211353` · 12/3/2020 · POINT COMFORT, 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:** Chlorine, chlorine bleach
## Employer
- **Name:** Formosa Plastics Corporation, Texas
- **Location:** 201 Formosa Drive, POINT COMFORT, TEXAS, 77978
- **NAICS:** 325211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At about 3:00 p.m. on December 3, 2020, an employee was switching out a one-ton chlorine cylinder in an ethylene glycol unit when a chlorine leak developed. The employee inhaled chlorine gas and was hospitalized.

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