# Cuts, lacerations at VCA Saukville Animal Hospital
> OSHA SIR `2017087701` · 8/11/2017 · SAUKVILLE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Other animal bites, nonvenomous
- **Source:** Dogs, canines-domestic
## Employer
- **Name:** VCA Saukville Animal Hospital
- **Location:** 303 W. Dekora Street, SAUKVILLE, WISCONSIN, 53080
- **NAICS:** 541940
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to put a gauze muzzle on a dog when the dog bit and lacerated the employee's right thumb, requiring hospitalization.

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