House Education and Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) is inquiring whether or not a series of biting incidents by President Joe Biden's dog Commander have made the White House an unsafe work environment.

In a Wednesday letter to the president and acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su, Foxx said that White House was obligated to maintain a safe work environment but that "it is failing to uphold this responsibility," citing a series of biting incidents involving the president's dog.

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"Recent reports concerning White House staff and U.S. Secret Service personnel regularly incurring dog bites indicate that occupational hazards are prevalent at the White House," Foxx wrote in her letter. "The press has reported 12 biting instances involving the President’s dog Commander since 2021, including incidents resulting in employee hospitalizations. I am concerned these incidents are an indicator of larger occupational safety and health failures at the White House that go unreported and unnoticed by the press."

Foxx noted that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which oversees workplace safety, would have jurisdiction over the White House's workplace safety procedures. The agency is located within the Department of Labor, which is overseen by Foxx's committee.

Commander, the president's German shepherd, was revealed last month to have bitten staff and Secret Service personnel on numerous occasions after the conservative group Judicial Watch obtained government documents through a Freedom of Information Act request. The biting incidents even resulted in at least one hospital visit for the victim.

In her letter, Foxx requested that the Department of Labor provide any documents alleging that the White House was an unsafe work environment and noted that the presidential office was subject to the same workplace safety rules as the private sector.

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"The White House should not embrace an attitude of 'rules for thee, but not for me' when it comes to workplace safety," she wrote. "Accordingly, I am requesting the information that the White House and the Department of Labor have on file related to workplace accidents and injuries at the White House to ensure the White House is living up to its expectations of the private sector."

The Washington Examiner reached out to the White House and the Department of Labor for comment.