# Fractures at Norton Sound Economic Development Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2022086920` · 8/5/2022 · UNALAKLEET, ALASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and trunk
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian vehicular incident, unspecified
- **Source:** Bucket, front-end, end, and pay loaders
## Employer
- **Name:** Norton Sound Economic Development Corporation
- **Location:** 323 River Dock Road, UNALAKLEET, ALASKA, 99684
- **NAICS:** 114111
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was attaching lifting bridles to a front-end loader when the front-end loader lurched forward and struck the employee in the head. The employee sustained a fractured jaw, fractured back, and lacerations on the head and knee.

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