Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Lamb Farms Inc., 3962 Batavia Elba Townline Road, OAKFIELD, NEW YORK 14125
on — Fractures, affecting the multiple trunk locations.
Final narrative
An employee was bringing a group of cows to the milking parlor and walking them down a ramp walkway when a bull came up and pushed him against a concrete wall, then lifted him up and over the wall onto the concrete floor. He was hospitalized with a fractured pelvis and fractured lower vertebrae.
HospitalizedMultiple trunk locationsCattle and other bovines
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