# Fractures at Snowshoe Mountain, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025010102` · 1/5/2025 · SNOWSHOE, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other multiple ear(s), facial locations
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Collision with stationary object, nonroadway
- **Source:** Snowmobile
- **Secondary source:** Other special process machinery  n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Snowshoe Mountain, Inc.
- **Location:** 10 Snowshoe Drive, SNOWSHOE, WEST VIRGINIA, 26209
- **NAICS:** 713920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee on a snowmobile was checking slopes. A slope they settled on gave way and the snowmobile forced the employee into a snow-making pole. The employee sustained a depressed tripod fracture to their face and required surgery.

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