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Police Brief 07/20/11

Student injured by cow

July 19, 2011

A 21-year-old female student was transported to Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital after she was injured by a cow at about 2:15 p.m. July 14 at the MSU Dairy Farm, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.

The student, a care technician for the MSU Dairy Farm, was moving a herd of cows into the barn when a cow pinned her against a gate, McGlothian-Taylor said.

After she was freed, she moved behind a wall to avoid being trampled.

She sustained an injury to her upper left arm that was not life-threatening, she then was transported to the hospital in an ambulance by the East Lansing Fire Department.

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