Editing BASE jumping (section)

== Safety ==
{{See also|List of fatalities due to wingsuit flying}}

Recent statistics reflect improved safety of the activity. The 2024 Bridge Day Event which saw the participation of 325 BASE jumpers completing 755 BASE jumps resulted in zero jumper injuries, in contrast to two non-jumper related medical transports from the same event.<ref>{{cite web |title=What are the safety stats for the one day of permitted BASE jumping that takes place in a United States National Park? |url=https://baseaccess.org/faq |website=BASE Access |access-date=28 November 2024}}</ref> And in the year 2023 the United States saw zero BASE fatalities.<ref>{{cite web |title=United States BFL Statistics |url=https://bfl.baseaddict.com/list#BFL |website=BASE Fatality List |access-date=28 November 2024}}</ref> A study of BASE jumping fatalities estimated that the overall annual fatality risk in 2002 was one fatality per 60 participants.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Westman |first=A |author2=Rosen, M |author3=Berggren, P |author4=Bjornstig, U |title=Parachuting from fixed objects: descriptive study of 106 fatal events in BASE jumping 1981–2006 |journal=British Journal of Sports Medicine |date=7 April 2008 |volume=42 |issue=6 |pages=431–436 |doi=10.1136/bjsm.2008.046565 |pmid=18523039 |s2cid=22586192 |url=http://bjsportmed.com/content/42/6/431.abstract |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301214219/http://bjsportmed.com/content/42/6/431.abstract |archive-date=1 March 2012 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> A study of 20,850 BASE jumps from the [[Kjerag|Kjerag Massif]] in Norway reported nine fatalities over the 11-year period from 1995 to 2005, or one in every 2,317 jumps.<ref name="Soreide 2007 1113–7">{{cite journal| last1=Soreide| first1=K| last2=Ellingsen |first2=CL |last3=Knutson |first3=V|title=How dangerous is BASE jumping? An analysis of adverse events in 20,850 jumps from the Kjerag Massif, Norway|journal=The Journal of Trauma|date=May 2007|volume=62|issue=5|pages=1113–7| pmid=17495709|doi=10.1097/01.ta.0000239815.73858.88}}</ref><ref name="Risk of Dying">{{cite web| url=http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/booth/Risk/sports.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120904102144/http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/booth/Risk/sports.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-09-04 |title=Risk of dying and sporting activities |publisher=Medicine.ox.ac.uk |date=2003-05-26 |access-date=2014-02-04 }}</ref> However, at that site, one in every 254 jumps over that period resulted in a nonfatal accident.<ref name="Soreide 2007 1113–7"/> BASE jumping is one of the most dangerous recreational activities in the world, with a fatality and injury rate 43 times higher than that of parachuting from a plane.<ref name="Soreide 2007 1113–7"/><ref name="Risk of Dying" />

{{As of|2023|01|04}}, the BASE Fatality List records 480 deaths for BASE jumping since April 1981.<ref name="fatal-list">{{cite web |url=https://bfl.baseaddict.com/list |title=BASE Fatality List |access-date=2020-02-14}}</ref>