# Fractures at Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association
> OSHA SIR `2021032119` · 3/10/2021 · SPARTA, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by animal, unspecified
- **Source:** Cattle and other bovines
## Employer
- **Name:** Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association
- **Location:** 6089 State Highway 16, SPARTA, WISCONSIN, 54656
- **NAICS:** 424520
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was preparing to move a steer into the auction pen when a second steer knocked the employee to the ground. The employee sustained fractured neck vertebrae, lacerations to the head, and shoulder contusions.

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