# Nausea, vomiting- toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect at Gurwin Home Care Agency
> OSHA SIR `20180811248` · 8/23/2018 · HUNTINGTON, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Nausea, vomiting- toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect
## Cause
- **Event:** Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
- **Source:** Cleaning and polishing agents, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Gurwin Home Care Agency
- **Location:** 61 Spring Road, HUNTINGTON, NEW YORK, 11743
- **NAICS:** 621610
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

After cleaning a patient's bathroom, an employee experienced shortness of breath and nausea due to exposure to bleach-based cleaner and isopropyl alcohol. She was hospitalized.

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