# Poison, toxic, or allergenic effects  other respiratory at Albert Einstein Medical Center
> OSHA SIR `2025010799` · 1/25/2025 · PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Poison, toxic, or allergenic effects  other respiratory
## Cause
- **Event:** Inhalation of harmful substance  single episode or single shift
- **Source:** Other smoke, fire gases
- **Secondary source:** Heroin
## Employer
- **Name:** Albert Einstein Medical Center
- **Location:** 5501 Old York Road, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 19141
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was investigating the smell of smoke coming from a room and experienced an asthma attack after breathing in the smoke from the heroin a patient was smoking. The employee was hospitalized.

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