# Gunshot wounds at Rent-A-Center East, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017032025` · 3/3/2017 · READING, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Shooting by other person-intentional
- **Source:** Assailant, suspect, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Firearm, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Rent-A-Center East, Inc.
- **Location:** 420 North 9th Street, READING, PENNSYLVANIA, 19601
- **NAICS:** 532210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On March 3, 2017, at 11:00 a.m., an employee was completing a merchandise delivery when a male on a bicycle rode up to the delivery box truck and fired 8 rounds at the truck, three of which pierced the employee in the arm and pelvic area. He was hospitalized.

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