# Cuts, lacerations at U.S. Postal Service
> OSHA SIR `2023010841` · 1/26/2023 · LENOIR, NORTH CAROLINA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nonclassifiable
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Other animal bites, nonvenomous
- **Source:** Dogs, canines-domestic
## Employer
- **Name:** U.S. Postal Service
- **Location:** 114 Ridge St., LENOIR, NORTH CAROLINA, 28645
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was delivering mail when they were bit by a dog and sustained a laceration.

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