Incident report

Buxton Edale snatch squad called by the East Midlands Ambulance Service to assist in the evacuation of a 12 year old girl, from Warsop, Nottinghamshire, who had slipped and fallen sustaining an injury to her upper leg/thigh, aggravating a pre-existing medical condition, whilst walking to Carlswark Cavern. She was treated on site by the ambulance service paramedics and we evacuated her by stretcher, some 400 metres to a waiting ambulance. She was then transferred to the Chesterfield Royal Hospital for further treatment.