No injured cavers recorded.
June 1976
Five cavers entered the Great Rock Sink Entrance of Sloan's Valley Cave and proceeded to the Big Room via the south overlook, a difficult climb. They were crossing a sloping ledge in the Lake Room when one slipped and fell onto the breakdown below. He became wedged between blocks of breakdown when one moved slightly to pin him. When it proved impossible for the others to free him, they sent for assistance. The Somerset-Pulaski County Rescue Squad sent two men with a hydraulic jack. They were able to free the trapped caver, who was able to leave the cave under his own power.
Analysis: In ordinary caving there seems to be no reason not to carry a 9 mm rope of medium length, say 50 feet, for belaying in exposed situations.