# Dizziness, lightheadedness, headache-toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect at Universal Protection Service
> OSHA SIR `2016075950` · 7/2/2016 · MATTESON, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Dizziness, lightheadedness, headache-toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect
## Cause
- **Event:** Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
- **Source:** Carbon monoxide
- **Secondary source:** Generators
## Employer
- **Name:** Universal Protection Service
- **Location:** 600 Holiday Plaza Suite 500, MATTESON, ILLINOIS, 60443
- **NAICS:** 561612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was inside a security guard shack when a generator from a construction company that was performing work at the facility emitted exhaust fumes into the shack. The employee became dizzy and lightheaded, requiring hospitalization for carbon monoxide exposure.

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