# Multiple types of open wounds at U.S. Postal Service - Los Angeles
> OSHA SIR `2017076145` · 7/5/2017 · LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple types of open wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Other animal bites, nonvenomous
- **Source:** Dogs, canines-domestic
## Employer
- **Name:** U.S. Postal Service - Los Angeles
- **Location:** 7001 S. CENTRAL AVENUE, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, 90052
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was bitten by a dog while delivering mail, suffering puncture wounds and lacerations to the head, neck, hand, and arm.

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