The fatality rate per participant is a lot lower now than it was in the beginning "It used to be referred to as sport death", but it's still about 13 - 30 a year. Mostly due to accidents involving landing and other entirely preventable things.
I almost ended up in those statistics. The ropes of my chute got tangled up when it deployed. Thankfully they untangled in time :-) Got in on video too, ha ha.
