Incident
101 in 2013
Type
Location
Harter Fell
Diagnosis

The team was called out to assist a male who had hurt his arm on Harter Fell, Eskdale. As we were responding the man and his wife made their own way from the fell to their car. We continued with a limited response, when we arrived at the car park we discovered he had dislocated his elbow. We treated him at the car park and transported him to West Cumberland Hospital. A very painful injury

Incident started at 15:50 and ended at 17:50 making 2 hrs in total. There were 17 Wasdale team members involved and the incident occured at NY 2125 0113 (altitude 105 m). Total rescuer hours: 34

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