# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at Hunter Mountain Resort
> OSHA SIR `2025010470` · 1/14/2025 · HUNTER, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple trunk locations
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Ski lifts, gondola rides
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Hunter Mountain Resort
- **Location:** 64 Klein Avenue, HUNTER, NEW YORK, 12442
- **NAICS:** 713920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to clear snow off a "willy bag" (a safety bag to put under unseated passengers for the lift) when he was struck by a moving chair. The employee sustained multiple fractured ribs and a pneumothorax.

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