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

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14565683

CHEST,AGRICULTURE,ANIMAL HANDLER,STRUCK BY

Event
CHEST,AGRICULTURE,ANIMAL HANDLER,STRUCK BY
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
14565683
Report ID
950411

Event description

EMPLOYEE STRUCK IN CHEST (PROBABLY KICKED) BY COLT

Investigation abstract

EMPLOYEE #1 HAD BEEN ASSIGNED TO HALTER BREAK A YEARLING COLT. THE COLT WAS PLAC ED IN A SMALL CORRAL. EMPLOYEE #1 PUT A HALTER, WITH A LONG DRAG ROPE ATTACHED, ON THE COLT. THIS ROPE FACILITATES CATCHING THE COLT AND LEADING IT AROUND THE C ORRAL. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS FOUND LYING ON HIS BACK NEAR THE INSIDE OF THE CORRAL FEN CE. EMPLOYEE #1 DIED OF BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA TO THE CHEST, PROBABLY A RESULT OF BE ING KICKED BY THE COLT.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 26 M

    Nature of injury
    12
    Part of body
    5
    Event type
    1
    Source
    3
    Occupation code
    487
    Human factor
    1
    Environmental factor
    18
    Task assigned
    1

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.