Incident date: 2024-09-16
NAICS industry code: 926130

On September 16, 2024, an employee was hooking up a lead to a gas meter in a customer's backyard when the employee was bitten by a copperhead snake. 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