# Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at Sherwood South Animal Hospital & Emergency Center
> OSHA SIR `2022010943` · 1/18/2022 · BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Other animal bites, nonvenomous
- **Source:** Cats, felines-domestic
## Employer
- **Name:** Sherwood South Animal Hospital & Emergency Center
- **Location:** 3803 S. Sherwood Forest Blvd, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA, 70816
- **NAICS:** 541940
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was opening a kennel to retrieve a cat for treatment when the cat bit the employee, resulting in a bacterial infection. The employee was hospitalized.

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