There's been a few stories this year of people being seriously injured by large animals. The latest is an ex-dairy farmer who won £60,000 compensation for being attacked by a cow, see here. It's difficult not to smile instinctively at the thought of normally docile animals being a threat (there's a kind of Keyestone cops folk memory of the policeman bending down and being kicked by the horse, or Carry-on characters being chased by bulls across fields, which is hard to shift and your average cow doesn't exactly look threatening) but the sheer weight of these animals can make anyone one facing one moving at speed feel like a very moveable object.
The HSE's figures show an average of 49 agricultural deaths each year from 1997 to 2007 (the headline stats are on the executive's main agriculture page ) and it looks like only five of those are due to contact with livestock. I'd be interested in the totals for less serious injuries. Might go and look...
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