Animal transportation collision in nonroadway area · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Gottsch Employers Group, LLC, 1350 Road L, RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA 68970
on — Fractures , affecting the Lower leg(s).
Final narrative
An employee was riding a horse in the bud box near shipping pens and was helping a trucker load cows onto a livestock trailer. Two cows were being loaded into the nose of the trailer and a third cow tried to follow. The employee went to stop the third cow. The cow pushed the horse (and rider) down an alleyway. The employee's boot spur caught on the cow and his right leg twisted, resulting in fractures to the fibula and tibia.
Hospitalized Lower leg(s) Horses, equines
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