# Multiple poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effects at Energy Transfer, LP
> OSHA SIR `2020010094` · 1/5/2020 · COYANOSA, TEXAS
## 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:** Hydrogen sulfide
## Employer
- **Name:** Energy Transfer, LP
- **Location:** Coyanosa Gas Plant, COYANOSA, TEXAS, 79730
- **NAICS:** 486210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee climbed up stairs to a tank gauging platform, accessed the tank to be gauged, cracked the gauging hatch to let it vapor off while standing upwind, and gauged the tank twice. During the third gauging effort, the employee was exposed to hydrogen sulfide (H2S). He was hospitalized for upper respiratory tract irritation, dizziness and disorientation.

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