# Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified at U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services
> OSHA SIR `2019099256` · 9/6/2019 · CARR, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Stings and venomous bites
- **Source:** Venomous snakes
## Employer
- **Name:** U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services
- **Location:** V27X+4J, CARR, COLORADO, 80612
- **NAICS:** 924120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was preparing food and filling hoppers with food. He opened an outdoor food hopper to add feed and was bitten on the left hand by a rattlesnake that was in the hopper, resulting in hospitalization.

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