# Fractures at VAIL RESORTS, DBA BRECKENRIDGE SKI RESORT
> OSHA SIR `2025065614` · 6/12/2025 · BRECKENRIDGE, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level  caught self or curtailed
- **Source:** Fixed ladder or fire escape
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** VAIL RESORTS, DBA BRECKENRIDGE SKI RESORT
- **Location:** 1599 Ski Hill Road, BRECKENRIDGE, COLORADO, 80424
- **NAICS:** 713920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was descending a fixed ladder into a block house to perform maintenance on a snow-making system. His foot slipped and his heel struck a pipe (part of the snow-making system) behind him. The employee fell partially down the ladder before he stopped himself from falling further and another employee helped him out of the space. The employee suffered a broken right tibia and fibula.

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