Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-05-24 | Silver City | Nm | Gila National Forest | Multiple body parts | Parachuting 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. | |||||
2019-04-23 | Silver City | New Mexico | U.S. Forest Service | Brain | Nonclassifiable |
An employee was clearing out land to install a fence around a perimeter when the employee suffered a possible head injury. |