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OSHA Injury Report: Buncombe County-Social Services

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Buncombe County-Social Services in Asheville, NC 28801 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was sOCIAL WORKER in community social service program administration.

Establishment
Buncombe County-Social Services
Parent company
County of Buncombe
Street
200 College Street, 1st Floor
City
Asheville
State
NC
ZIP
28801
On-site location
Criss Lane, Asheville NC 28806
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

in the field interviewing a client

On scene 4 dogs were gathered aggressively around an 11 year old and tried to bite him. Employee picked the child up to get him away from the dogs and placed the child on the top of his car. As employee was doing this one of the dogs bits him in the back of his right calf. The bite went through the pants and broke the skin. Prescribed medication.

Struck or Injured By - Animal or Insect

Dog

On scene 4 dogs were gathered aggressively around an 11 year old and tried to bite him. Employee picked the child up to get him away from the dogs and placed the child on the top of his car.

Job description
SOCIAL WORKER
SOC code
21-1029 — Social Workers, All Other
NAICS code
923130 — Community social service program administration
NAICS vintage
2012
Avg employees
456
Total hours worked
788953
EIN
566000279
Establishment ID
997090
Employer case #
W00497583
Date of incident
Shift started
8:00
Time of incident
13:00
Filing year
2025
Submitted
28JAN26:19:03:00

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.