# Severe wounds or internal injuries and soft tissue injuries at Winter Livestock Inc
> OSHA SIR `2025054504` · 5/13/2025 · LA JUNTA, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other lower extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Severe wounds or internal injuries and soft tissue injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Gored, rammed by animal
- **Source:** Cattle, bovines
- **Secondary source:** Fences
## Employer
- **Name:** Winter Livestock Inc
- **Location:** 30425 E Hwy 50, LA JUNTA, COLORADO, 81050
- **NAICS:** 424520
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was opening a gate to pen a bull. The bull started fighting with another bull and drove the other bull into the employee, which drove her into the fence and knocked her to the ground. The employee sustained a fractured sternum, four fractured ribs, a lacerated spleen, a fractured L2 vertebra, and a tear to the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) of the right knee.

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