MONROE, WISCONSIN—
Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association
Struck by animal, unspecified · Amputations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association, N1365 Hwy 69, MONROE, WISCONSIN 53566 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was sorting steers in an alley. The employee's right ring and little fingers were crushed between the gate and the steer, and the employee's right thumb was lacerated. The ring and little fingers were medically amputated at the first knuckle below the nail.
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REEDSVILLE, WISCONSIN—
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An employee was trying to keep a wild steer in a holding pen by holding the gate latch down. The steer popped the lock and pushed the gate open, striking the employee in the head and knocking him to the ground. The steer stepped on him. He suffered a broken rib and a broken left leg.
SPARTA, WISCONSIN—
Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association
An employee was preparing to move a steer into the auction pen when a second steer knocked the employee to the ground. The employee sustained fractured neck vertebrae, lacerations to the head, and shoulder contusions.
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