# Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at Securitas Security Services USA, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2017076555` · 7/15/2017 · VALPARAISO, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Bites and stings, unspecified
- **Source:** Reptiles, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Securitas Security Services USA, Inc
- **Location:** Swingerton Construction, Inc., VALPARAISO, FLORIDA, 32580
- **NAICS:** 561612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was picking up water bottles near the guard gate when a black snake bit his index finger. He was hospitalized.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*