1880 – Young Parkes flour mill worker Joseph Sim was riding his horse over a hurdle at a Boxing Day event, when it caught on the post and fell on him.
“He was immediately removed in an impossible condition to the hospital for medical attendance’’, where he died without recovering consciousness.
While newspaper reports say the event happened on Boxing Day, his headstone records December 28 as his date of death, so he may have lingered in hospital for a few days before succumbing.
SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald Thursday 30 December 1880 p 5
Way to go Australia 