Incident date: 2025-05-08
NAICS industry code: 721120

An employee was pruning bushes using pruning shears. When he reached into a bush with the shears, a rattlesnake bit his right thumb.

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