Woman falls in to Borderland Waterfall

A 52-year-old woman fell about eight feet into a waterfall and onto rocks at Borderland State Park early Saturday evening before a bystander jumped in and pulled her out, Sharon Capt. Rich Murphy said Monday.

The woman and her husband were walking in the Tisdale Road trail area, a quarter-mile off Mountain Street, when she slipped on a cement slab, Murphy said.

The woman was out of the water when Sharon firefighters arrived, he said. A Sharon ambulance took her to the Caritas Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton for treatment of minor injuries and for evaluation, he said.

"She was lucky she didn't get hurt worse," Murphy said.

"It was just all boulders down there. She could've hit any one of them."

Firefighters were called to the scene, 776 Mountain St., at 5:30 p.m., according to the Sharon Fire log.

Murphy declined to identify the woman, citing privacy issues.