VALE, SOUTH DAKOTA·
U.S. Department of the Interior
Struck by animal unspecified · Traumatic injuries or exposures unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at U.S. Department of the Interior, Contracted Off Range Pasture facility in Rural South Dakota, VALE, SOUTH DAKOTA 57788 on , Traumatic injuries or exposures unspecified, affecting the part of body unspecified.
Final narrative
A team was sorting and loading wild horses onto trucks to be shipped to a new location and a gelding that had injured itself was being moved to a single pen. That horse then came back over the top of the employee who was working with it, striking them in the back and launching them approximately 8 feet into the air. This caused him to strike his face on a corral panel. The employee was hospitalized.
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