# Fractures at Bureau of Land Management - Taos Field Office
> OSHA SIR `2022054657` · 5/29/2022 · SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Aircraft incident, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Helicopter
- **Secondary source:** Water
## Employer
- **Name:** Bureau of Land Management - Taos Field Office
- **Location:** 35 38.195 N - 105 31.870 W (WGS 84), SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, 87501
- **NAICS:** 721211
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was performing firefighting duties on the ground when a helicopter above the employee dropped water onto the ground as a fire retardant. The employee was struck by the water, resulting in a broken jaw and facial lacerations. The employee also sustained lacerations to the right thumb and wrist that required stitches and left knee fractures as well as general bruising to the entire body.

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