Photo by Adam Tychonski/ A statue in memory of 14-year-old Aubrey Parsons sits next to Hosakás Trail warning sign. Parsons died in 2003 after she fell along the trail. Others have fallen there, including a woman who had a compound fracture Sunday.

LORE CITY — A woman was injured Sunday along a wet and mossy trail where at least one memorial stands in honor of one of the people who have fallen there and been seriously injured or died.

Personnel from Liberty and United Ambulance Services of Cambridge were among those called around 3:45 p.m. Sunday to Hosak’s Cave at Salt Fork State Park after Guernsey County 911 received a call stating a female had fallen and sustained a serious leg injury. First responders from United Ambulance reported that the unidentified woman sustained a compound fracture as a result of the fall and was transported to a hospital. Officials did not release her name, and her condition was not known.

The fall happened along a trail where at least two people have died in the past 15 years. At the trailhead that leads to Hosak’s Cave, a statue of an angel sits in memory of Aubrey Parsons. Parsons was 14 when she she died from a fall along the trail on June 13, 2003.

Published reports also indicate that Amy Adams, who was a junior at was then Muskingum College, slipped over the edge May 3, 2009. Adams was flown to a hospital in Akron but died shortly thereafter.

At least two others, both young men, have tumbled into the tree-lined gorge but survived with serious injuries.

Park officials declined to provide information on the safety of the trail or the trail itself. Although United Ambulance Services Director of Operations Jim Starr did confirm there are signs on the trail that warn those who hike there not leave the trail or climb the rocks, Starr also said there are no physical barriers to stop anyone from doing so.

“It’s wet moss covered rock, very easy to slip on,” he said. “Hikers climb over to the edge to look down and slip. At the bottom is more rock that has fallen over time.”

Located at the northern end of the park, Hosak’s Cave is actually a 60-foot-high sandstone cliff where the bottom has eroded away to create a rocky overhang and a roomy shelter. From the floor of the cave to the top of the formation is 60 feet. The dimensions of the cave itself are about 40-feet high and nearly 100-yards wide.

When conditions are wet, a trickle of water falls from the top into the gorge at Hosak’s Cave.

The state park website states the trails at Hosak’s Cave are potentially dangerous and that hikers access it at their own risk.