# Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at Monroe Animal Health, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015010911` · 1/28/2015 · MONROE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Other animal bites, nonvenomous
- **Source:** Cats, felines-domestic
## Employer
- **Name:** Monroe Animal Health, Inc.
- **Location:** 3150 Sterlington Road, MONROE, LOUISIANA, 71203
- **NAICS:** 541940
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On 1/27/15, the employee was getting a cat out of a carrier with the assistance of another person.  The other person was holding the box and she was getting the cat out.  The cat bit her hand.  After it continued to swell, the employee was admitted on 1/28/15 overnight for IV antibiotics.

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