# Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels at U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Water Science Center
> OSHA SIR `2025032245` · 3/10/2025 · ELY, MINNESOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lung(s), pleura
- **Nature of injury:** Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels
## Cause
- **Event:** Nonroadway noncollision  vehicle overturn
- **Source:** Snowmobile
- **Secondary source:** Slopes, embankments
## Employer
- **Name:** U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Water Science Center
- **Location:** Ojibwa Lake Road, ELY, MINNESOTA, 55731
- **NAICS:** 541360
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

At about 9:15 a.m. on March 10, 2025, an employee was riding along a hardpack snow-covered roadway on a snowmobile. The snowmobile went over a berm and tipped/rolled, causing the employee to fall to the ground. He suffered a collapsed left lung and was hospitalized.

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