Incident date: 2015-05-28
NAICS industry code: 491110

While delivering mail to a private residence, a mail carrier was attacked by a resident's dog.  The carrier received 3 puncture wounds to the arm.  She received treatment the day of the event.  She went to a specialist the next day who admitted her to the hospital.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other animal bites, nonvenomous
code_source: title: Dogs, canines-domestic
code_nature: title: Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate