# Multiple types of open wounds at Palm Valley Animal Center
> OSHA SIR `2017021052` · 2/2/2017 · EDINBURG, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s) and arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple types of open wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Bitten and struck by animal
- **Source:** Mammals, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Palm Valley Animal Center
- **Location:** 2501 W. Trenton, EDINBURG, TEXAS, 78539
- **NAICS:** 541940
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On February 2, 2017, at about 5:00 p.m., an employee was attempting to euthanize a possum when it bit the employee's right hand and scratched the employee's right arm. The employee was hospitalized.

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