# Pneumonitis, n.e.c. at Kleinfelder, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021054224` · 5/24/2021 · EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lung(s), pleura
- **Nature of injury:** Pneumonitis, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
- **Source:** Chemicals and chemical products, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Kleinfelder, Inc.
- **Location:** 205 Central Ave, EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, 07017
- **NAICS:** 541620
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was taking groundwater samples from a monitoring well and became ill. The employee was diagnosed with chemical pneumonitis due to exposure to volatile organic chemicals (VOCs).

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