# Effects of poison, toxic, or allergenic exposure  unspecified at Joel Rodriguez
> OSHA SIR `2025043465` · 4/14/2025 · HARGILL, 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:** Joel Rodriguez
- **Location:** 26.48002*N,98.03006*W, HARGILL, TEXAS, 78549
- **NAICS:** 115115
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using scissors to cut dead wood from a citrus tree when he dropped the scissors. He reached down to pick them up and was bit by a rattlesnake on the left hand.

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