Incident date: 2021-07-09
NAICS industry code: 115310

A smokejumper jumped out of a plane to fight the fire and got caught in a tree. The parachute let go and he fell to the ground. The employee sustained a pelvic injury, a broken tibia and a concussion.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Trees
code_nature: title: Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate