# Fractures at Vail Resorts
> OSHA SIR `2021032456` · 3/23/2021 · VAIL, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Ground, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Snow sports equipment
## Employer
- **Name:** Vail Resorts
- **Location:** 1000 S Frontage Road West, VAIL, COLORADO, 81657
- **NAICS:** 713920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was leading a ski school class and was demonstrating a technique when she skied over a soft mound of snow that caught the edge of her ski. Her ski binding released and she fell to the ground and sustained a spiral fracture of the left tibia and fibula.

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