# Traumatic injuries or exposures  unspecified at U.S. Department of the Interior
> OSHA SIR `2024109256` · 10/3/2024 · VALE, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Part of body  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Traumatic injuries or exposures  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by animal  unspecified
- **Source:** Horses, equines
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** U.S. Department of the Interior
- **Location:** Contracted Off Range Pasture facility in Rural South Dakota, VALE, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57788
- **NAICS:** 925120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## 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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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*