# Fractures at Custer Gallatin National Forest
> OSHA SIR `2025065544` · 6/10/2025 · WEST YELLOWSTONE, MONTANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other lower extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Parachuting and nonpowered aircraft incidents
- **Source:** Parachute
- **Secondary source:** High winds, gusts, turbulence
## Employer
- **Name:** Custer Gallatin National Forest
- **Location:** Little Dead Buffalo Jump Spot, WEST YELLOWSTONE, MONTANA, 59758
- **NAICS:** 115310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing a proficiency jump during smokejumper training. Increasing wind and turbulent air caused the employee to have a hard landing; the employee suffered a fractured femur, a fractured right foot, and compression fractures to two lower-back vertebrae. The employee was hospitalized.

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