Horse kicks man in face

By Glen Atwell
A MAN kicked in the face by a horse at the Cranbourne Training Complex on Monday morning is nursing facial injuries.
Lyndhurst paramedics who were called to the horse stables at 11.20am arrived on the scene within eight minutes to find the man slumped outside the horse’s housing.
Advanced life support paramedic Tess Gaffney said the horse reared up and kicked the 42-year-old in the face.
“He managed to crawl out of the horse’s stable, into a clear area,” she said.
The man suffered fractures to his cheekbone and jaw and cuts to his face.
“He was initially treated by a non-emergency ambulance crew, on duty at the racecourse,” Ms Gaffney said.
“We fitted a neck brace given the potential for a spinal injury in the accident and he was strapped to a spine board. A monitor was used to check the man’s heart and he was given oxygen.”
The man was provided with pain relief and transported to Dandenong Hospital in a stable condition.