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NarrativeAt approximately 4:00 p.m. on 11/26/2017, two skydiving instructors went up in a plane with a student who was doing a Level 1 skydive after completing a mandatory 5-hour ground school prior to the jump. During the freefall, the student became unstable and lost awareness of the altitude and had not pulled the cord at the required 50,00 feet. At approximately 2,500 feet, the student had still not pulled the cord so the instructor went and deployed the parachute for the student. Once that was done, the instructor deployed her own parachute with approximately 1,500 feet of altitude remaining, not enough altitude to land in the Drop Zone (DZ). Instead, the instructor landed approximately ? mile from the DZ in rocky terrain. The instructor sustained: a left fractured femur; pulmonary contusion; left pelvic fracture; traumatic brain injury; and internal bleeding.

NarrativeOn August 3, 2017 an employee was working alone and performing shingle repair on the upper 6:12 sloped and lower 4:12 sloped roofs of a building. The employee had used a two section 24' long metal Louisville extension ladder to access these roofs with the upper 12 foot section to access the lower roof from the ground and the lower 12 foot ladder section to access the upper roof from the lower roof. As the employee descended the ladder from the upper roof to the lower roof sections, the legs of the ladder slid out causing the employee to fall from the ladder onto the lower roof and then fall an additional 8 feet and 9 inches from the lower roof to the ground below. The employee died of spinal injuries caused by the fall.

NarrativeAt 10:45 a.m. on October 27, 2016, an employee was evaluating student drivers performing straight line backing when the employee was fatally crushed between two trucks.