# Effects of poison, toxic, or allergenic exposure  unspecified at Blackhawk Energy Services, LTD
> OSHA SIR `2024043748` · 4/30/2024 · ORLA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** BODY SYSTEMS
- **Nature of injury:** Effects of poison, toxic, or allergenic exposure  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Venomous animal bite  except "bugs"
- **Source:** Venomous snakes
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Blackhawk Energy Services, LTD
- **Location:** Waterfall BPX, ORLA, TEXAS, 79770
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading spare tires into the doghouse. There was a rattlesnake under one of the tires and it bit his left index finger. The employee was hospitalized.

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