# Multiple poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effects at Amresco, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017021589` · 2/17/2017 · SOLON, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effects
## Cause
- **Event:** Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
- **Source:** Cyanide and cyanide compounds, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Amresco, Inc.
- **Location:** 28600 Fountain Parkway, SOLON, OHIO, 44139
- **NAICS:** 325180
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was weighing out potassium cyanide and walking it to the lab hood. The employee suffered acute potassium cyanide poisoning. A proper respirator was not worn at the time of the incident.

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