| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-09 | Pray | Mt | US Forest Service Region one, Fire Depot | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level |
| 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. | |||||
| 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. | |||||
| 2018-07-05 | Mccall | Idaho | Payette National Forest | Nonclassifiable | Parachuting incident |
| A smokejumper was injured while landing during a parachute jump. | |||||
| 2018-06-04 | Mccall | Idaho | U.S. Forest Service - Payette National Forest | Hip(s) | Parachuting incident |
| During a training event, a smokejumper clipped a tree with his parachute, resulting in a partially collapsed canopy and a hard impact to the dirt ground. The employee was hospitalized for a hip injury. | |||||
| 2018-04-24 | Idaho City | Idaho | Bureau of Land Management, National Interagency Fire Center, Great Basin Smoke Jumpers | Lumbar region | Parachuting incident |
| An employee conducted a training jump and was gliding through the air with a parachute when the employee landed hard and fractured the L1 vertebra. | |||||
| 2017-09-27 | Dumfries | Virginia | Federal Bureau of Investigations Academy | Multiple body parts | Parachuting incident |
| An employee was undergoing parachute readiness training when mechanical turbulence led to a hard landing. The employee impacted the ground and suffered a concussion and multiple fractures, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
| 2017-09-07 | Pine Bluff | Arkansas | PINE BLUFF ARSENAL | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was working at a station that packs parachutes into canisters. The hydraulic ram on the parachute packing machine initiated out of sequence, catching the employee's glove. She was able to extract her hand from the glove, but not before the end of the ram entered the canister and amputated her right middle fingertip. | |||||
| 2016-08-24 | Quantico | Virginia | Federal Bureau of Investigations Academy | Ankle(s) and leg(s) | Parachuting incident |
| 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. | |||||
| 2015-08-02 | Roseburg | Oregon | Bureau of Land Management, National Interagency Fire Center, Great Basin Smoke Jumpers | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was landing in a jump spot. Upon landing, the employee ran into a coworker who was already on the ground and pulling his parachute in. The employee was hospitalized with C6 and C7 neck fractures. | |||||