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Sugar Rush Timber Sale Pile Burning Slip-and-Fall Incident 2025

  • Incident Information:

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  • Location:

    Oregon

  • Date:

    12/04/2025

  • Incident Type:

    Fall

  • Description:

    During a prescribed pile burn on the Sugar Rush Timber Sale, located in the Coos Bay Unit, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Oregon, a firefighter suffered a closed posterior malleolus fracture of the right tibia after a slip-and-fall incident while traversing a 40 percent slope. The firefighter self-extricated, was transported for medical care, then later released with follow-up orthopedic instructions.

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