# Cuts, lacerations at Wildlife Conservation Society
> OSHA SIR `2017076856` · 7/23/2017 · BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Other animal bites, nonvenomous
- **Source:** Birds and fowl, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Wildlife Conservation Society
- **Location:** 450 Flatbush Avenue, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, 11225
- **NAICS:** 712130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was placing a box on the bird's perch when the bird bit the employee's right hand multiple times resulting in multiple lacerations and hospitalization.

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