# Cuts, lacerations at U.S. FOREST SERVICE, BEND/FORT ROCK RANGER DIST.
> OSHA SIR `2016087629` · 8/15/2016 · BEND, OREGON
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Thrown, fell, or jumped from animal being ridden
- **Source:** Horses and other equines
- **Secondary source:** Bees, hornets, wasps
## Employer
- **Name:** U.S. FOREST SERVICE, BEND/FORT ROCK RANGER DIST.
- **Location:** Crater Butte Trail, BEND, OREGON, 97701
- **NAICS:** 924120
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was riding a horse on the trail when the horse disturbed a bee's nest. The bees stung the horse, causing the horse to buck and throw off the employee. The employee landed on a jagged stump and sustained lacerations to the left forearm, and possibly sustained rib and spleen damage.

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