# Fractures at USDA Forest Service, White River National Forrest
> OSHA SIR `2025032330` · 3/11/2025 · VAIL, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back  sacral region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Nonroadway noncollision  fall or jump from moving vehicle
- **Source:** Snowmobile
- **Secondary source:** Hard hat, helmet
## Employer
- **Name:** USDA Forest Service, White River National Forrest
- **Location:** Vail Pass Winter Recreation Area, VAIL, COLORADO, 81657
- **NAICS:** 921190
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was putting on a helmet before operating a snowmobile. The helmet caught on the throttle of the snowmobile, which lunged forward. The employee was thrown to the ground and suffered a broken sacrum, as well as other lower body/back injuries.

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