A man and woman in their thirties are the latest skydivers to suffer injuries in Queensland — in unrelated incidents — after a man died following a hard landing skydiving incident last month.
The Australian Parachute Federation (APF) investigates all injuries and incidents that occur from skydiving.
APF chief executive Richard McCooey said accidents tended to happen in clusters.
"Often you can have absolutely nothing for months and then you get two or three incidents [in a month]," he said.
"We investigate about 50 injuries a year roughly, but that does vary a lot from year to year.
"We have to remember skydiving is an adventure sport, leaping out of an aircraft at 14,000 feet clearly comes with risk."
Mr McCooey said there were about 3,000 regular skydivers in the country who completed jumps most weekends.
"There are around half a million jumps done in Australia each year," he said.
Back-to-back hard landings
On Monday, a man in his 30s attending a sky diving festival south-west of Toowoomba suffered severe spinal injuries after hitting the ground with force.
The Queensland Ambulance Service was called to Tarawera, 270 kilometres south-west of Toowoomba, around 3pm.
Mr McCooey said the Jyro Boogie was held once a year.
"It's just a matter of people getting together, often from interstate who don't know each other so well, and doing different formations and getting to know different people," he said.
"He was jumping with a number of others in a formation."
Mr McCooey said it was a remote location and difficult to get people to hospital.
"I think the particular concern is about how long it would take to get the injured person back to a hospital," he said.
Around 8am on Tuesday, the Queensland Ambulance Service was called to an address at Bloomsbury, north of Mackay, after a parachuting incident.
A 31-year-old woman is being treated in the Proserpine Hospital for a leg fracture but is stable.
Both incidents come after an experienced skydiver died in hospital last week following a hard landing at Laguna Quays, north of Mackay.
The Australian Parachute Federation will investigate all three landings.
"Simple incidents are investigated at a desk … the more serious ones with injury are investigated in person," Mr McCooey said.
"It's an adventure sport. You can expect injuries.
"We're continually working to drive those injuries down to as little as possible, but I'm not sure there'll be a day where we can say it's perfectly safe."
