# Dizziness, lightheadedness, headache-toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect at Memorial Hospital West Volusia, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023098813` · 9/24/2023 · DELAND, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Dizziness, lightheadedness, headache-toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect
## Cause
- **Event:** Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode
- **Source:** Mercury and compounds
## Employer
- **Name:** Memorial Hospital West Volusia, Inc.
- **Location:** 701 West Plymouth Ave, DELAND, FLORIDA, 32720
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a broken flow meter. Mercury from the meter spilled onto the floor and the employee was cleaning it up with a spill kit. He began to feel lightheaded and was hospitalized for mercury inhalation.

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