# Surface, flesh wounds and soft tissue injuries at Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area
> OSHA SIR `2025054373` · 5/9/2025 · LOVELL, WYOMING
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Head and extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Surface, flesh wounds and soft tissue injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Hills, mountains
- **Secondary source:** Hills, mountains
## Employer
- **Name:** Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area
- **Location:** Near Barry's Landing Junction about a 1/4mi, LOVELL, WYOMING, 82431
- **NAICS:** 712190
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was offroad, looking for a lost hiker. The employee fell off a canyon rim edge and landed on rimrock 5 or 6 feet below, suffering a separated shoulder and a head injury that required stitches. The employee was hospitalized.

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