# Skull fracture and intracranial injury at Cactus Feeders
> OSHA SIR `20191112200` · 11/25/2019 · HALE CENTER, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Brain
- **Nature of injury:** Skull fracture and intracranial injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Thrown, fell, or jumped from animal being ridden
- **Source:** Horses and other equines
## Employer
- **Name:** Cactus Feeders
- **Location:** 1635 FM 179, HALE CENTER, TEXAS, 79041
- **NAICS:** 112112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had finished his break. He then mounted a horse and was leaving the horse barn area. The horse began to buck and threw the employee to the ground. The employee sustained a separated shoulder, a left-side subdural hematoma, and a temporal fracture.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*