# Gunshot wounds at Kettering Health Network
> OSHA SIR `2020011016` · 1/31/2020 · HAMILTON, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Self-inflicted shooting-unintentional
- **Source:** Person-injured or ill worker, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Firearm, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Kettering Health Network
- **Location:** 630 Eaton Ave, HAMILTON, OHIO, 45013
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A security officer was attending to an aggressive dog(s) by the patient entrance to the hospital. During the intervention with the dog(s), the officer was bitten. At that point, the officer discharged a firearm at the dog and the discharged round struck the officer in the left little finger area.

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