# Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at U.S. Postal Service
> OSHA SIR `20191212825` · 12/13/2019 · SALTILLO, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Other animal bites, nonvenomous
- **Source:** Dogs, canines-domestic
## Employer
- **Name:** U.S. Postal Service
- **Location:** 1916 Birmingham Ridge Road, SALTILLO, MISSISSIPPI, 38866
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was delivering mail. She stepped out of her vehicle to deliver a package to a house and a dog bit both her legs; she fell and suffered a wrist injury. The bites became infected and she was hospitalized.

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