Incident date: 2016-08-18
NAICS industry code: 541320

At approximately 7:30 a.m., an employee was working around a flower bed, pulling weeds at a recreation center, when he was bitten by a snake (copperhead) on his right hand/ring finger. He was hospitalized overnight due to severe swelling.

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