# Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified at Don M. Barron Contractor Inc
> OSHA SIR `2016054075` · 5/11/2016 · MONROE, LOUISIANA
## 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:** Sewer gas
## Employer
- **Name:** Don M. Barron Contractor Inc
- **Location:** Intersection of Nichols St. and Dick Taylor St., MONROE, LOUISIANA, 71201
- **NAICS:** 237990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were fixing a sewer system at the intersection. The first employee went down into the sewer to relieve a blockage. He finished and proceeded to climb the 9-foot ladder up the sewer hole. Just before he was able to reach the top of the hole, he collapsed and fell down the ladder. The second employee went down the ladder to rescue the first employee and put a hoist rope around him. While the first employee was being hoisted up the hole, the second employee succumbed to the gases that were in the sewer and collapsed. One of the employees was hospitalized.

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