Table 2 Incidence rates of reported non‐fatal skydiving injury events in Sweden during 1999–2003.

	Jump volume	Reported incidents	Incidents per 100 000 jumps	Jumps per one incident
Total	539 885	257	48	2101
Licensed	481 607	150	31	3211
Student training*	58 278	107	184	545
Conventional	48 450	97	200	499
AFF	9828	8	81	1229
Equipment related†		42	8	12 854
Serious incidents‡		30	6	17 996

AFF, accelerated free fall.

Tandem skydiving, military parachuting, airplane crashes and parachuting in other countries involving Swedish skydivers are excluded.

*In two cases, student training system was unknown.

†Incidence rate calculated from total jump volume. Including main parachute malfunctions, main pilot chute (the small round parachute that is deployed into the airstream to pull out the wing parachute) malfunctions, unintentional main and reserve parachute deployments, problems with the main parachute steering lines, other reasons for reserve parachute use and hard openings.

‡Maximum Abbreviated Injury Scale ⩾3 severity. Incidence rate calculated from total jump volume.