# Fractures at ASPEN SKIING COMPANY, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20161211445` · 12/8/2016 · ASPEN, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Mountains
- **Secondary source:** Ice, sleet, snow
## Employer
- **Name:** ASPEN SKIING COMPANY, LLC
- **Location:** 0076 BOOMERANG ROAD, ASPEN, COLORADO, 81611
- **NAICS:** 721110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was ski-cutting to compact snow so that customers would not clip any ice and get hurt when he clipped ice on the ground and fell forward onto the snow, fracturing his leg.

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