# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at USDA Forest Service Ranger Station
> OSHA SIR `2025088389` · 8/22/2025 · BIGFORK, MONTANA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Trunk and other lower extremities
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Parachuting and nonpowered aircraft incidents
- **Source:** Parachute
- **Secondary source:** Wildfire
## Employer
- **Name:** USDA Forest Service Ranger Station
- **Location:** 200 Ranger Station Road, BIGFORK, MONTANA, 59911
- **NAICS:** 922160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A smoke jumper parachuted out of a helicopter during a forest fire response, landed on steep rugged terrain, and suffered femur and rib fractures and a liver laceration. The employee was hospitalized.

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