# Fractures at Weyerhaeuser
> OSHA SIR `2021075499` · 7/6/2021 · KALISPELL, MONTANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Nonroadway incident involving motorized land vehicle, unspecified
- **Source:** Off-road passenger vehicles-powered, n.e.c
## Employer
- **Name:** Weyerhaeuser
- **Location:** 75 Sunset Drive, KALISPELL, MONTANA, 59901
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a three-wheeled personal electric transport vehicle. While traveling up a concrete grade of approximately 30 degrees, the equipment failed. The employee then attempted to turn left, back down the incline, and the front wheel may have caught on a concrete barrier. The employee fell out of the vehicle, landed on the concrete ground and sustained a broken left femur.

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