105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Waurika Livestock Commission Company

Thrown, fell, or jumped from animal transportation · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Waurika Livestock Commission Company, 203 South Highway 81, WAURIKA, OKLAHOMA 73573 on — Fractures , affecting the Jaw, chin.

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.

Hospitalized Jaw, chin Horses, equines

US Forest service, Bitterroot National Forest, Stevensville Ranger District

An employee was riding a horse and leading several pack mules along a trail. A few mules started acting up, causing the horse to stir. The employee then fell off the horse and landed on a stiff woody protrusion that impacted her chest/rib area. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured rib and a punctured lung.

Our Lady of Victory National Shrine & Basilica

An employee was riding a horse in the horse corral/riding arena when the horse bucked multiple times. The employee performed an emergency dismount off the right side of the horse. When she landed, she fell backward in the sand, onto her back. The employee sustained a crushed vertebra.

Hoxie Feedyard, LLC

A pen rider was moving cattle and they were after an animal. When the animal changed direction, the horse also turned and then tripped and fell. The employee fell with the horse and sustained a dislocated left shoulder, a fractured right thumb, and a fracture above the eye.

U.S. Border Patrol

An employee fell off a horse while performing riding patrol duties and was hospitalized with a fractured skull.

Haflinger Haven

On June 20, 2025, an employee fell from a horse, suffered a head injury, and was hospitalized.

Winter Livestock Inc

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.

Baskin Livestock

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.

New Holland Sales Stables

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.

Brazos Valley Livestock Commission

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.

Wilson Creek Cattle Feeders

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.

Rae Corporation

An employee was helping to move a 1,300-pound coil on a cart. The steel caster hit a crack in the concrete, the weld holding the caster onto the cart broke, and the coil and cart tipped over onto the employee. He was hospitalized with a laceration on his forehead and a pelvic fracture on his right side.

Meeco Sullivan

An employee was cutting a piece of metal rod with a metal cutting machine. His right middle finger became caught between the rod and the machine's table. The employee's fingertip was partially amputated.

Edward Jones Investments

An employee was working at her desk. She went to stand up and fell to the floor beside the desk. The employee sustained a hip displacement and required surgery.

Burgess Manufacturing of Oklahoma Inc.

An employee was processing wood boards at a chop saw when the saw malfunctioned and the blade cut her left hand and fingers. She was hospitalized and her little finger was surgically amputated.