New York woman, 28, dies after being attacked by a cow on a farm

A farm worker has been killed by a cow after it charged at her as she she tended to a newborn calf.

Flor Lopez, 28, died after the cow struck her multiple times as she worked on Flack Farm in Lisbon, New York, near the Canadian border, on Sunday.

She was rushed to Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center in Ogdensburg but did not survive, police said.

It was not known if the cow that killed Lopez was the calf's mother.

The St Lawrence County Sheriff's Office is investigating and an autopsy will be conducted to determine the exact cause of death.

Jefferson County agricultural coordinator Jay Matteson was shocked that a cow had attacked the worker badly enough to kill her.

'You're dealing with a live animal that weighs a thousand pounds or more and sometimes you just can't predict what they may do,' he said.

'It's something that has caused a lot of sorrow and we in agriculture send our condolences to Flor's family and also the owners of the dairy farm.'