# Amputations at DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2019010906` · 1/25/2019 · DENVER, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Other animal bites, nonvenomous
- **Source:** Mammals, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION, INC.
- **Location:** 2300 STEELE STREET, DENVER, COLORADO, 80205
- **NAICS:** 813319
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While administering oral medication to a bear, an employee was bitten by the bear and the distal phalange on the left middle finger was amputated.

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