GLOUCESTER, Mass. — September 21, 2012 — Paramedics rushed a man from the fishing vessel Venture to Beverly Hospital on Thursday night after he fell from a 14-foot ladder onto the boat's deck.
Police and paramedics responded to Jodrey State Fish Pier at 10:30 p.m. and crew members met them on the boat. They took them to the man, David Peppard, 53, of no known address, who was lying on his back on the deck. He had a laceration on the back of his head from the fall, and told paramedics that he couldn't move his feet or back.
Crew members said he fell from the ladder while the boat was getting ice at Cape Pond Ice. They rushed the boat back to the fish pier after Peppard fell and met paramedics there.
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