What are common Equestrian injuries?

In the equestrian world and horses, in particular, we do get a lot of calls to people who have been injured by horses. And again, it tends to be a pretty broad spectrum. The most common is people being thrown off horses when the horse has bolted, and they get thrown off the horse onto the surface. It depends on what surface they land on. If it's a nice soft field and it's wet, then they will tend to bounce, but depends what they land on. If it's a road surface and they drop on a hard road surface, then we can have some severe head injuries, some severe back and neck injuries, fractures are quite common. We also get a lot of people that get kicked by horses, or in particular, stood on, where they stand on the feet and break the toes and this sort of stuff. So I have also had a lot of people that have been rolled on, where they have the horse has gone down as they have been jumping and practising and the horse then rolls and we get a lot of pelvic fractures, which can be a severe life-threatening injury.

And another one that we get a lot of is people getting crushed in either loading or offloading horses onto the transport, is where they get crushed between the transporter and the horse itself or in the actual stable environment, where the horse turns in the stable and pushes them against the wall and leans on them. And it can seriously affect rib cages, sternum fractures. And I have also had a lot of people when they are clipping horses and they turn the clippers on and the noise of the clipper turning on and the horse bolts or rears and kicks. And if you are in a confined space with a horse that is spinning around trying to kick you, there is not a lot of places to get out. And those, again, can be pretty severe injuries.