# Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds at Emancipet Pflugerville Clinic
> OSHA SIR `2020088127` · 8/26/2020 · PFLUGERVILLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Needles, syringes
- **Secondary source:** Dogs, canines-domestic
## Employer
- **Name:** Emancipet Pflugerville Clinic
- **Location:** 15803 Windermere Drive #420, PFLUGERVILLE, TEXAS, 78660
- **NAICS:** 621111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A veterinarian was drawing blood from a patient for a test when the dog pulled her arm and jerked it back. The needle went into the veterinarian's thumb about an inch. Her hand started swelling in the evening. She later went to the hospital for an infection.

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