Incident date: 2016-08-08
NAICS industry code: 211111

An employee was bitten on the hand by a rattlesnake while turning a valve to change the flow direction. The snake was coiled underneath the tank hatch. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Stings and venomous bites
code_source: title: Venomous snakes
code_nature: title: Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate