Accident Database

Report ID#65657

2009-07-26
accident date
Jordan Finke
victim
0
victim age
Green
river
2. Green Narrows
section
Sunshine Falls
location
6.5"
gage
Low
water level
V
river difficulty
Impact/Trauma
cause code(s)
Spinal Injury
injury type(s)
Other
factors
Private
trip type
Whitewater Kayak
boat type
status?
status

Description

While running the right line at Sunshine, I caught the right shelf early causing me to fall off early. While doing so I tucked and flipped landing on my back on the rock. After the crash, I washed over the bottom rocks downstream. I pulled my skirt and resurfaced. Two or three boaters pulled me out in the river right eddy. I was evacuated out of the gorge with the help of paddlers and the EMS in a litter on a backboard up the pulliam creek trail. My only injury was a T-12 Compression Fracture.