| Name | Age | Sex | Injuries | Injured areas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burrell, Lonnie | 17 | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| Busbey, Billy | 18 | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| Martini, Mike | 18 | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| Houge, Adam | 18 | Not recorded | Not recorded | Not recorded |
In the Summer of 1983, four cavers entered Talucha Cave in Alabama. These were Lonnie Burrell (17), Billy Busbey (18), Mike Martini (18) and Adam Houge (18). They had one flashlight apiece and were wearing jeans, T-shirts and tennis shoes. They were without helmets and had been in a cave only once before. About sixty feet into the cave they came to a twenty foot drop, mostly a slope of about 70 degrees. The right side of this slope had a heavy electrical cable fixed as a hand line. The left side, various holds. Burrell started down the left side. About five feet from the top he lost his footing, rolled down the slope and fell free for six feet, landing on a breakdown pile. He suffered sprained fingers and was dizzy for about ten minutes. They proceeded through the cave. By the time they started out, Burrell's hand had swollen to the point where he could not move it, but he made it out under his own power.
As Burrell says, they 'were simply a group of flashlight and tennis shoe jerks.' After the accident, Burrell yielded to peer pressure to continue with the trip when he should have exited immediately.
Inexperienced caver Lonnie Burrell suffers sprained fingers after falling on a slope within Talucha Cave due to inadequate equipment and peer pressure to continue despite injury.