# Effects of poison, toxic, or allergenic exposure  unspecified at BARONA CASINO & RESORT
> OSHA SIR `2025054353` · 5/8/2025 · LAKESIDE, CALIFORNIA
## 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:** BARONA CASINO & RESORT
- **Location:** 1932 WILDCAT CANYON ROAD, LAKESIDE, CALIFORNIA, 92040
- **NAICS:** 721120
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

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

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