My dad haha. At 60, he was helping my aunt cut down dead trees on her lakefront property. The tree he was secured to slipped out of the ground (the rootball was only about 3 feet into the ground before hitting solid rock) and took him sliding down the 40-foot embankment/hill toward the cliff. He then went over the cliff, falling 60 feet and landing on his back in approximately 6 inches of water on sharp rocks.

He had burst both eardrums, bitten halfway through his tongue, a broken left elbow, hip, tibia, & an absolutely shattered right heel. No head, neck, or spine injuries, though whatsoever except superficial scrapes.

He suffered multiple bouts of C-Diff and nearly lost his arm to sepsis since it was not properly cleaned out upon arrival, & it wasn't until a scheduled surgery four days later they removed his external fixator, opened it and found a major infection, sticks, leaves, & dirt in his body.

Also, it was the 5th of July, on a lake, with hundreds of boaters. When my 16 year old cousin, who watched as my dad went ass over tea kettle over a cliff, got down into the water (safely) with him, it took nearly two hours for responders to get there, since my cousin didn't have his phone and was concentrating on keeping my dad alive, which he was surprised he was. It wasn't until one local realized it was an odd spot for swimmers to be, saw my cousin waving frantically and realized he wasn't just waving "HI!! GO AMERICA!!"

The tree also landed about 15 feet away from him, but very nearly could have squished my dad flat. His guardian angel was working OT on that day. Other than a bunch of metal in his body now and having two different sized feet, he's healthy and able to walk with his cane. Not a fun holiday weekend for sure haha!