“Having personally been bitten by Eastern and California King snakes, Corn snakes, Ball Pythons, Gopher snakes, Black Racers...”
You are either doing something fundamentally wrong, or you are the un-luckiest SOB...
Gonna take a wild guess and say he’s a keeper of snakes.
Fundamentally wrong? No, they can bite. Unlucky? No, it is expected to be bitten. It happens for one of two reasons: fear or startlement, or feed response. Either way, it is No Big Deal. More blood, more pain playing with the cats.