# Fractures at Caviness Beef Packers, LTD
> OSHA SIR `2021087179` · 8/23/2021 · HEREFORD, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by animal, unspecified
- **Source:** Cattle and other bovines
## Employer
- **Name:** Caviness Beef Packers, LTD
- **Location:** 3255 W. Hwy. 60, HEREFORD, TEXAS, 79045
- **NAICS:** 311611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was about to use a captive bolt gun to stun a bull that was down in a cattle pen. The bull got up and knocked the employee to the ground; the stun gun went off and struck the employee in the left thigh. The employee suffered a broken femur.

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