Suspended For "customer Complaints" Right After A Dog Bite At Work. Pretty Sure My Job Is Illegally Retaliating. Need Advice On Next Steps!

Location: Las Vegas, Nevada

Hey everyone, I need some serious advice on a sketchy situation with my employer. I work as a dog handler at a private training and boarding facility in Las Vegas, Nevada, and the timeline of events over the last few days makes it incredibly obvious management is trying to push me out after a safety incident.

Here is exactly how it played out:

Saturday: A dog at our facility bit my co-worker. Management tried to brush it off.

Sunday: The exact same dog bit me. It was a severe bite from a powerful, reactive animal that easily could have been my face.

Monday: The bite was bad enough that I had to go to the doctor to get medical treatment and am now on prescription antibiotics.

Tuesday: Because it was a dog bite, local Animal Control got involved to enforce the mandatory 10-day rabies quarantine. An officer came out to speak with me and actually took photos of my phone screen to preserve the dog's files and backend logs on our workplace app (Gingr) before they could disappear.

Wednesday: Out of nowhere, my job suspended me, claiming they received "several customer complaints" about my shift on Tuesday. The catch? I had nearly zero customer interaction during that entire shift. On top of the suspension, I logged in last night and realized management completely revoked my user access to our employee software so I can't look at the system logs anymore.

It is incredibly obvious that they are fabricating "customer complaints" as an excuse to retaliate against me because Animal Control is now investigating the facility. They are trying to bury the timeline and bully me into silence.I’ve already filed a formal workplace hazard complaint with Nevada OSHA because of the dangerous environment and the suspicious timing of this suspension, but I’m incredibly stressed.

Where I need advice:

Since they are actively fabricating a reason to suspend/fire me, how do I protect myself when responding to these fake "customer complaints"?

If they officially turn this suspension into a firing, how do I ensure my current partial unemployment benefits aren't messed up? (I work a second retail job at Petco, so my income is already taking a massive hit from this).

Animal Control already has photos of the app files from my phone, but since my employer cut off my software access last night, is there anything else I should be doing to secure my paper trail?

My family is worried about me making a mess or dealing with expensive lawyers, but I refuse to let this company get away with this kind of bullying behavior. Any advice on how to handle a corrupt management team trying to fake a paper trail against you would be appreciated.