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Glad the kid lived, albeit with some terrible injuries.
That was horrifying. Not sure that helped my fear of slipping off of lift chairs.
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Feb 20, 2013, 1:43 PM #1
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Kid falls 45' from a chairlift
holy shit
Video says:
I was skiing when my friend gets off balance and ends up hanging from the chair. He did not have the security bar down. He hung from about Pole 8 to 21, and at 21 he fell. This was on a lift that averages 37ft above the ground, But pole 21 was the 3rd highest strech at about 45ft high, 19 being the highest. He suffered from injuries including: concussion, skull fracture, collapsed lung, and a lacerated liver.
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Feb 20, 2013, 2:01 PM #2
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Feb 20, 2013, 2:06 PM #3
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I wonder what the details are behind it. I'm betting they were messing around on the lift before that happened. Apparently he hung on for a long time - somewhere in the comments it said from Tower 8 to Tower 21 or something like that.
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Feb 20, 2013, 2:40 PM #4
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Assuming this just happened, and with those injuries, he may not be out of the woods just yet.
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Also, that's assuming this is real to begin with.
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Feb 20, 2013, 2:48 PM #5
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Safety meeting gone horribly wrong?
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Feb 20, 2013, 3:00 PM #6
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Shall we revisit the "Do you close the safety bar" thread?
Hope he comes through the injuries OK, those are some pretty serious ones for sure
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Re: Kid falls 45' from a chairlift
A young girl fell off the chair at Jiminy Peak this past weekend. I believe she broke her femur.
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Feb 20, 2013, 3:06 PM #8
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+1 Originally Posted by emmaurice2
When the CVA chairlift-nobar testosterones are among those in line @SL I find it relaxing to avoid being chair-mates....Last edited by bigbog; Feb 20, 2013 at 3:12 PM.
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Feb 20, 2013, 4:35 PM #9
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That was ugly....Hope he recovers.
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Should this go in the wtf thread?
.....or in this section? Or both?
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