Chair falls from lift at Attitash

[urungus]

OMG

Chair Falls from Lift at Attitash

Photo credit: David G. via X. A quad chair detached mid-line on Attitash’s Flying Bear lift this afternoon, injuring one person. A photo posted to the Ski the East Facebook page showed the ch…

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[thetrailboss]

That is just crazy. And LiftBlog reported:

“Attitash has been looking to hire experienced lift mechanic(s) since at least early January.”

 

[2Planker]

That is just crazy. And LiftBlog reported:

“Attitash has been looking to hire experienced lift mechanic(s) since at least early January.”

Maintenance. Shmatenance.
Just run it, it’ll be fine.

 

[eatskisleep]

Absolutely terrible. How could anyone comfortably own this stock seeing how badly this company is failing around every turn?!

 

[thetrailboss]

Maintenance. Shmatenance.
Just run it, it’ll be fine.

Hard to believe that lift is almost 30 years old….

 

[thetrailboss]

More info from social media.

 

[Former Sunday Rivah Rat]

Absolutely terrible. How could anyone comfortably own this stock seeing how badly this company is failing around every turn?!

How could anyone comfortably buy an Epic pass?

 

[thetrailboss]

Well, there certainly are a confluence of some bad events and factors here for Vail. The strike, the Late Apex report, now this. Add a trade war with Canada and soon Europe and things get real interesting.

 

[thetrailboss]

Update. A picture shows a metallurgical failure of the grip. Not sure if this guy is a credible expert, but it’s disturbing nonetheless.

 

[thetrailboss]

 

[zoomzoom]

those lines seen above the final failure location are called "beach marks", and are typical signs of intermittent crack growth over time. the poster is also correct about how/when to reset grip force faults on dopplemayrs. time to write the check.

 

[deadheadskier]

Part of me is curious what Vail would say if I asked for a refund on my two unused Epic Day passes. After seeing now two failures at their NH resorts in recent years, I'm not too confident in their maintenance practices. And it's beyond maintenance. Not halting lift operations when there was a warning sign is total negligence.

They truly do suck. Hope the injured skier gets a 7 figure settlement out of them.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

MTN is off 2% premarket. but hard to say if its because of this or the general bloodbath that will be today.

 

[danimals]

those lines seen above the final failure location are called "beach marks", and are typical signs of intermittent crack growth over time. the poster is also correct about how/when to reset grip force faults on dopplemayrs. time to write the check.

the resetting of the faults is going to be the main point here. Sure maybe deferred maintenance led to the failure but the system told you something was up. It reminds me of the collision on the roller coaster in England a few years back. An empty train valleyed at a low point in the course due to high winds at a spot out of site of ride operators, and the computer system shut down the ride as it should have to prevent a collision (block zones on coasters are interesting in their own right). Maintenance put the ride in manual mode and sent the next train out with riders on it (a big no no) and they collided. The coaster trains are floorless so the passengers in the front row took the full impact of the multi-ton trains colliding straight to their legs.

If a computer tells you something is broken, listen to it, inspect it, test it, then load it. For f*cks sake.

 

[kendo]

Vail could start with a no cell phone use in the lift shack policy.

Sensation top op (Stowe) has had her head in her phone all morning, never looking up. It's an 'intermediate/expert' lift with very light use, but accidents happen...


and it's deep all over, today...

 

[thetrailboss]

Part of me is curious what Vail would say if I asked for a refund on my two unused Epic Day passes. After seeing now two failures at their NH resorts in recent years, I'm not too confident in their maintenance practices. And it's beyond maintenance. Not halting lift operations when there was a warning sign is total negligence.

They truly do suck. Hope the injured skier gets a 7 figure settlement out of them.

So Meme Rob is avoiding this thread (out of respect to the injured) but I would imagine IF you got a person that they would cheerfully remind you that you have so many EPIC options besides AttiCat. And that you were not on the Flying Bear on the day in question.

But of course it would be smart to just issue you a credit/refund.

 

[gittist]

I wonder who signed off on the lift inspection report? Food and beverage? It looks to me (without reading the regulations) that it's an inspection by a Vail employee.

I'm going to Mt Snow next week, I hope their chairs stay attached and also that I'm not stuck on one..

https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/fmo/remote-docs/dsss-120.pdf

 

[thetrailboss]

So would annual/regular NDT catch something like this? I know that the protocol is to rotate grips for NDT. I would have thought that this one would have been tested in the last four years or so.

 

[Edd]

I’ve had moments of doubt while boycotting Vail these last few years but they’re working to make me feel pretty smug about my decision.

 

[2Planker]

They are extremely short handed for lift Ops..
There is no true experienced head of Lift Ops.

These types of positions can't be split between 2 resorts that are 20 mins apart.

NH tramway inspectors are expected to show up this afternoon.

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