105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

SOUTH JORDAN, UTAH—

Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forests Headquarters

Collision with stationary object, nonroadway · Injuries to the brain, spinal cord and severe wounds, internal injuries

At a glance

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forests Headquarters, 857 South Jordan Parkway, SOUTH JORDAN, UTAH 84095 on — Injuries to the brain, spinal cord and severe wounds, internal injuries, affecting the Head and trunk.

Final narrative

Two employees were utilizing a UTV to maintain forest roads when they collided with a snow drift or tree and came off the path, and then the UTV flipped. The first employee sustained a concussion and cracked ribs, and the other sustained cracked/broken ribs.

Hospitalized Head and trunk All-terrain vehicle (ATV)

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