# Effects of poison, toxic, or allergenic exposure  unspecified at AVS, INCORPORATED
> OSHA SIR `2024032574` · 3/22/2024 · AYER, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Effects of poison, toxic, or allergenic exposure  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Inhalation of harmful substance  single episode or single shift
- **Source:** Carbon monoxide
- **Secondary source:** Furnaces, heaters
## Employer
- **Name:** AVS, INCORPORATED
- **Location:** 60 FITCHBURG ROAD, AYER, MASSACHUSETTS, 01432
- **NAICS:** 333994
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving equipment into a building and breathed in carbon monoxide from a nearby malfunctioning heater furnace. The employee was hospitalized.

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