# Poisoning, including poisoning-related asphyxia at Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021021057` · 2/5/2021 · AUBURNDALE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Poisoning, including poisoning-related asphyxia
## Cause
- **Event:** Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
- **Source:** Sodium and potassium hydroxide, potassium carbonate
## Employer
- **Name:** Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores, Inc.
- **Location:** Arbys, AUBURNDALE, FLORIDA, 33823
- **NAICS:** 447190
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting fruit at a fruit station and had difficulty breathing. The employee lost consciousness after being exposed to sodium hydroxide that was used to clean the hood and was hospitalized.

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