Incident date: 2025-06-10
NAICS industry code: 115310

An employee was performing a proficiency jump during smokejumper training. Increasing wind and turbulent air caused the employee to have a hard landing; the employee suffered a fractured femur, a fractured right foot, and compression fractures to two lower-back vertebrae. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Parachuting and nonpowered aircraft incidents
code_source: title: Parachute
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Trunk and other lower extremities
severity: moderate