Odin Mine, Mam Tor

  • Call out for year: 88
  • Date: 23/11/16
  • Time: 2:40 pm
  • Grid ref: SK 13 83
  • Type of incident: Walker Injured(1)
  • Team members involved: 8
  • Time taken: 1
  • Total man hours: 8

Incident report

A joint team call-out for Edale and Buxton Mountain Rescue Teams from East Midlands Ambulance Service to assist with the evacuation of an injured walker near to Odin Mine below Mam Tor.

The female walker from Northamptonshire had slipped on the wet ground and sustained a suspected fractured ankle.  Following treatment by an E.M.A.S. Paramedic the casualty was carried a short distance on a mountain rescue stretcher to the waiting ambulance.

Other team members still on route to the incident were stood down.

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