Introducing a foal to a halter can be a tricky proposition, and a potentially dangerous one for the handler. Also dangerous, apparently, is standing around and watching the whole affair.

Vicky Cogar was attempting to put a halter on a six-day-old foal when the youngster backed into the stall door, pushing it open. Cogar had left the door unlatched in case things didn’t go well and she needed to make a quick exit from the stall, a sensible precaution. The swinging stall door hit Joann Krieger, who was watching from outside the stall, knocking her to the ground. Krieger, who happens to be Cogar’s mother, suffered injuries in the fall and she filed a lawsuit to recover damages