Incident date: 2019-06-27
NAICS industry code: 237310

A crew was removing an old, silt fence.  As the injured employee was reaching for part of the fence to pull it out, a rattlesnake bit the employee's left hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Stings and venomous bites
code_source: title: Venomous snakes
code_nature: title: Poisoning, including poisoning-related asphyxia
code_body: title: BODY SYSTEMS
severity: moderate