In case anyone else got curious about parachuting injury statistics, Google found me this (also cited by the article): "Parachuting injuries: a study of 110,00

In case anyone else got curious about parachuting injury statistics, Google found me this (also cited by the article): "Parachuting injuries: a study of 110,000 sports jumps", 1987, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1478603/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1478603/ All 6 deaths they observed, were either failures to activate the parachute (4 cases), or parachute malfunction (2 cases).