# Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c. at Gila National Forest
> OSHA SIR `2021054215` · 5/24/2021 · SILVER CITY, NEW MEXICO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
## Cause
- **Event:** Parachuting incident
- **Source:** Parachute
## Employer
- **Name:** Gila National Forest
- **Location:** 3005 E. Camino del Bosque, SILVER CITY, NEW MEXICO, 88061
- **NAICS:** 924120
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

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.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*