# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at IntraWest Winter Park Operations Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20171212002` · 12/18/2017 · WINTER PARK, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway
- **Source:** Snowmobile
## Employer
- **Name:** IntraWest Winter Park Operations Corporation
- **Location:** 85 Parsenn Road, WINTER PARK, COLORADO, 80482
- **NAICS:** 713920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was mounting a snowmobile to conduct a status check on equipment in the field when he inadvertently activated the throttle, causing the snowmobile to surge forward. The sudden momentum of the forward movement pulled him backwards, causing the throttle to remain engaged. He was then thrown off of the snowmobile and landed onto some parked snow guns, suffering rib fractures, vertebrae fractures, a lung contusion, and a kidney contusion.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*