# Fractures at Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association
> OSHA SIR `2021064850` · 6/15/2021 · REEDSVILLE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by animal, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Cattle and other bovines
- **Secondary source:** Gates
## Employer
- **Name:** Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association
- **Location:** 513 North 6th Street, REEDSVILLE, WISCONSIN, 54230
- **NAICS:** 424520
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to keep a wild steer in a holding pen by holding the gate latch down. The steer popped the lock and pushed the gate open, striking the employee in the head and knocking him to the ground. The steer stepped on him. He suffered a broken rib and a broken left leg.

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