# Hypertensive disease at Troy Chemical Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2023065204` · 6/13/2023 · NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Hypertensive disease
## Cause
- **Event:** Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue
- **Source:** Chemicals and chemical products, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Troy Chemical Corporation
- **Location:** One Avenue L, NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, 07105
- **NAICS:** 325510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While changing the couplings on a pump, an employee was sprayed in the back of the head with a chemical. The employee suffered hypertension caused by the chemical and was hospitalized.

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