Texas & Southwestern cattle Raiser Association

An employee entered a pen in the maternity barn to bottle-feed a calf. A cow spun around and head butted the employee into the metal enclosure fence three times. The employee sustained a punctured liver.

An employee was moving cattle when they were rammed by a cow. The employee sustained fractures to their L2 and L5 vertebrae, left sacral wing, and pelvis. They also suffered internal hemorrhaging in the abdominal.

An employee was loading hogs onto a trailer. After they were loaded, he was pinning the gate when one of the hogs charged and pinned the employee between the gate and the wall. The employee sustained a collapsed lung.

An employee was moving cattle from a pen to a tub when a bull got around the cattle guard. The employee climbed over the cattle guard to move away from the bull and the bull struck his arm, resulting in a fracture.

An employee was checking boars. A boar struck the employee's left leg, causing a cut to the thigh.

An employee was riding a horse while waiting to start sorting cattle when the horse started bucking. The horse's head hit the employee's jaw and the employee fell off the horse, resulting in a broken jaw.

An employee was opening a gate to pen a bull. The bull started fighting with another bull and drove the other bull into the employee, which drove her into the fence and knocked her to the ground. The employee sustained a fractured sternum, four fractured ribs, a lacerated spleen, a fractured L2 vertebra, and a tear to the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) of the right knee.

An employee was operating a vertical mast skid steer loader as he was moving bags of corn from the calf barn to a collection site. The employee unloaded the bags of corn when the attached forks, which were extended up, detached from the loader. As the forks swung downward, the force caused the forks to crash through the operator's front cab door and into the employee's legs. The employee sustained two broken legs and was hospitalized.

An employee was loading a bull into a chute for tagging. The gate did not latch, and the bull knocked the employee down, then threw him up into the air. He suffered broken ribs.

An employee was latching the gate after penning a bull when the bull hit the gate and ran over the employee's legs, resulting in a fractured left leg.

After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.

An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.

An employee was inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.