Incident date: 2025-08-15
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was pulling a water meter box to make a water tie-in. As the employee reached for the box, a cottonmouth snake inside the box bit the employee's left arm. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Venomous animal bite  except "bugs"
code_source: title: Venomous snakes
code_nature: title: Effects of poison, toxic, or allergenic exposure  unspecified
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate