Incident date: 2021-03-24
NAICS industry code: 491110

A letter carrier went up on a porch to deliver mail to a home when a dog came out of an open window in the screen door and attacked her, biting the left side of her face. A second dog also attacked, biting her on the right calf. The employee was hospitalized and required reconstructive surgery on her facial wounds.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other animal bites, nonvenomous
code_source: title: Dogs, canines-domestic
code_nature: title: Open wounds, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate