Brazos Valley Livestock Commission

The injured employee was riding a horse in a barn. A second employee was leading another horse ahead of them. The front horse backed up and then kicked at the injured employee, striking their left shin and fracturing the tibia and fibula.

An employee was loading a horse onto a trailer when the horse kicked them in the chest, resulting in bruising to their mid-torso below the sternum and above the ribs. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was assisting a veterinarian while working on a horse when the horse kicked out, contacting the employee's stomach. The employee was hospitalized with a ruptured liver.

While working at a customer location, an employee was sorting heifers for pregnancy tests. The heifers broke loose and trampled the employee, resulting in a compound fracture to their left leg and and hospitalization.

An employee was roping cattle when a horse stepped on them, resulting in a collapsed lung.

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 using support jacks to level a manure screener machine. While positioning the support jacks, he went to insert a pin through the holes to set the jacks in place. The holes did not line up and the pin could not be pushed through the back hole. He went to line the holes up again when the machine tilted down toward him, catching his left ringer finger that was holding the pin. The employee suffered an amputation at the distal interphalangeal joint.

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.