# Caisson disease, bends, divers' palsy at Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation dba Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
> OSHA SIR `2015129312` · 12/9/2015 · PARK RIDGE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Caisson disease, bends, divers' palsy
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure to change in air pressure
- **Source:** Pressurized air-environmental
## Employer
- **Name:** Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation dba Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
- **Location:** 1775 Dempster Street, PARK RIDGE, ILLINOIS, 60068
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping a patient in the hyperbaric chamber. The patient started seizing and the employee had to rapidly decompress the chamber, which resulted in the employee suffering an air embolism and decompression illness. The employee was hospitalized.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*