# Injuries to the brain, spinal cord and soft tissue injuries at Hanover Shoe Farms, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2025021647` · 2/19/2025 · HANOVER, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Injuries to the brain, spinal cord and soft tissue injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Gored, rammed by animal
- **Source:** Horses, equines
- **Secondary source:** Walls
## Employer
- **Name:** Hanover Shoe Farms, Inc
- **Location:** 2310 HANOVER PIKE, HANOVER, PENNSYLVANIA, 17331
- **NAICS:** 112920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was getting a horse out of a stall when the horse bolted and struck the employee. The employee struck the wall and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a fracture to their T11 vertebra, dislocations of the C4, C5, and C6 vertebrae, and a hemorrhagic contusion in the paramedial right frontal lobe.

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