Geocacher Falls Eight Meters into Well in Småland Rescue

She was after digital taxes when the ground beneath her gave way and Ingela Svensson Davidsson fell to the bottom of an eight meter deep well. It felt like I couldn't breathe and I couldn't get up. I was stuck, she says to Barometern.

» Published: July 12 2025

Geocacher Falls Eight Meters into Well in Småland Rescue
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The accident occurred at an old sawmill outside Nybro in Småland. By mistake, she stepped on a rotten wooden well cover, got stuck with one leg but managed to temporarily hold on with the other. It was also then that she managed to alert 112. Then she couldn't hold on anymore and slid down along the concrete wall in the narrow hole where the bottom was filled with muddy water and sawdust.

At first, I got scared and thought: Is this how it's going to end? Then I got angry. My daughter is going to have a child in the fall, my first grandchild, and I didn't think I'd get stuck in this hole, she says to the newspaper.

After about 40 minutes, the rescue service arrived. A firefighter with a vest that had a fastening device on the back was lowered down and anchored with a rope, she got help to climb up to the surface. She was taken, hypothermic, by ambulance to the hospital. Completely bruised, with low body temperature but without any fractures.

Now she feels great gratitude towards those who helped her up.

Everyone who took care of me, from firefighters and ambulance to the staff at the hospital, has been fantastic, she says.

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