Incident date: 2016-08-24
NAICS industry code: 922120

At approximately 1900 hours on 24 August 2016, an employee was involved in a "High Altitude Low Oxygen" (HALO) "free fall" parachute jump as part of his training curriculum. When the wind shifted at the drop zone, he was dragged into a chain link fence and fractured his right leg/ankle. The employee was admitted to the hospital and will require surgery to repair the fracture to his leg/ankle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Parachuting incident
code_source: title: Parachute
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Ankle(s) and leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate