# Multiple poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effects at Whitey's Ice Cream
> OSHA SIR `2023054737` · 5/29/2023 · MOLINE, ILLINOIS
## 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:** Ammonia and ammonium compounds, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Whitey's Ice Cream
- **Location:** 2525 41st Street, MOLINE, ILLINOIS, 61265
- **NAICS:** 722513
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On May 29, 2023, an employee was working on an ammonia compressor thermal siphon. When relieving the pressure, it released an ammonia cloud. The employee was hospitalized for breathing and swallowing difficulties as well as eye blurriness.

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