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March 16, 2009
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Copyright © 2008 National
Speleological Society
All Rights Reserved
Do not reproduce in any form, electronic or otherwise,
without permission.
The current file of reports for 2008 includes the incidents listed below. In some cases the reports are incomplete. If you have information about such incidents or about an incident which is not listed here, please contact the ACA Editor at aca@caves.org or use the online accident report form to report it.
Incidents listed in red are those for which the file is incomplete. The standard information required for an ACA incident summary is listed in the style guide.
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2008 Incidents |
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Date |
Cave |
Location |
Result |
Incident Type |
| 5 January | Rio Camuy | Puerto Rico | fatality | rockfall |
| 22 January | Cueva El Gran Plano | Puebla, Mexico | injury and aid | caver fall |
| 20 March | Rainbow Cave | Tennessee | aid, no injury | stranded, inexperience, inadequate equipment |
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30 March |
Georgia |
aid, no injury |
stranded, exhaustion |
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| 9 April | unspecified cave near Johnson City | Tennessee | aid, no injury | stranded in pit |
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25 May |
unspecified pit, El Malpais National Monument |
New Mexico |
aid, no injury |
stranded in pit, inadequate equipment |
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30 May |
Oregon |
injury and aid |
caver fall |
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| 30 June | Falls Cliff Cave | Vermont | aid, no injury | caver fall, stuck in crevice |
| 14 July | Fulford Cave | Colorado | injury and aid | caver fall |
| 18 July | Maquoketa Caves | Iowa | injury and aid | stuck in crevice |
| 18 July | Maquoketa Caves | Iowa | injury and aid | caver fall |
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18 July |
Arkansas |
aid, no injury |
stuck in crevice |
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21 July |
Tennessee |
injury and aid |
caver fall |
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| Summer | Fossil Mountain Ice Cave | Wyoming | aid, no injury | stranded |
| 27 July | Lechuguilla Cave | New Mexico | injury and aid | caver fall |
| 25 October | Fort Stanton Cave | New Mexico | fatality | heart attack in cave |
| 18 December | Morgan Cave | Tennessee | injury and aid | caver fall |
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2008 Cave Diving Incidents |
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Date |
Cave |
Location |
Result |
Incident Type |
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1 February |
Florida |
fatality |
cause unknown |
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10 March |
Florida |
fatality |
cause unknown |
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9 June |
Florida |
fatality |
cause unknown |
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2008 Caving-Related Incidents |
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Date |
Cave |
Location |
Result |
Incident Type |
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29 March |
Colorado |
fatality |
body found in cave |
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13 April |
unspecified cave off Transmountain Road |
Texas |
injury and aid |
burned man found in cave |
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15 May |
Crystal Cave |
California |
no consequence |
explosives found in cave |
| 2 August | School Sink | Florida | fatality | drowned while swimming in cave entrance |
| 21 August | unnamed ice cave near Denny Creek | Washington | injury and aid | hikers trapped in ice cave entrance collapse |
| 12 November | unnamed sinkhole, Eddy County | New Mexico | aid, no injury | equipment operator trapped by sinkhole collapse |
| 2 December | unspecified cave, Christian County | Kentucky | fatality | trench collapse while digging for artifacts in cave entrance |
Copyright © 2008 National
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All Rights Reserved
Do not reproduce in any form, electronic or otherwise,
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