DateCityStateEmployerBody PartEvent
2021-05-24Silver CityNmGila National ForestMultiple body partsParachuting incident
A smokejumper parachuted out of a plane to fight a wildfire. He had a hard landing on rocky terrain and suffered a skull fracture, a traumatic brain injury, facial fractures, a fractured neck vertebra, left-side pneumothorax, a broken left humerus, a broken left scapula, three broken ribs on the left side, a broken right tibia, and a shattered knee. He was hospitalized.
2019-04-23Silver CityNew MexicoU.S. Forest ServiceBrainNonclassifiable
An employee was clearing out land to install a fence around a perimeter when the employee suffered a possible head injury.