# Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at A Caring Doctor (Texas) PC
> OSHA SIR `2016064939` · 6/5/2016 · PASADENA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Other animal bites, nonvenomous
- **Source:** Cats, felines-domestic
## Employer
- **Name:** A Caring Doctor (Texas) PC
- **Location:** 5722 Fairmont Parkway, PASADENA, TEXAS, 77505
- **NAICS:** 541940
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was sedating a cat for a procedure when the cat broke out of its carrier and bit the employee on a finger. The bite became infected.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*