# Cuts, lacerations at U.S. Postal Service
> OSHA SIR `2020076493` · 7/11/2020 · PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Other animal bites, nonvenomous
- **Source:** Dogs, canines-domestic
## Employer
- **Name:** U.S. Postal Service
- **Location:** 9 Campbell Avenue, PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, 02904
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was delivering a package and was bitten by a dog. The employee sustained serious lacerations and other injuries that required surgery.

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