Man Hurt In Fall From Ski Lift

[Mildcat]

I just read this story. http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/14923047/detail.html

At Sunapee the rope came off the pulley on one of the lifts. I hope the guy will be ok. Anyone know which lift it happened on?

 

[dmc]

Was he using a leash?

 

[Mildcat]

How many vouchers is a drop worth and if you already have a pass what should one expect as "compensation" from the resort for your troubles?? :smile:

And do the vouchers expire at the end of the year even if your not healed enough to ski?

Was he using a leash?

He must have been because the story didn't say anything about somebody getting killed by a runaway snowboard.

 

[dmc]

He must have been because the story didn't say anything about somebody getting killed by a runaway snowboard.

funny...

 

[severine]

One of my greatest fears! Then again, I'm afraid of heights anyway, so that doesn't help.

 

[mountainman]

Bunch of jacka!!'s making fun of a very serouis incident. Find out the whole story before posting some stupid comments. This is a black eye for the whole industry just not the resort it happened to. State tramway inspectors will resolve this in a timely manner and be corrected. Let's hope the injured are ok and compensation will be apporiate when resovled.

 

[billski]

One of my greatest fears! Then again, I'm afraid of heights anyway, so that doesn't help.

Not meaning to cast aspersion on the indcident, I fear dropping all my stuff from the lift. I've watched gloves, poles, hats, skis, goggles, boards, cameras, cell phones, all fall down go boom.

I forget which area it is, but in the late spring, early summer the staffers climb up the liftline and harvest the goodies. Mostly they are going after the cash that falls - one report indicated nearly $200 was collected.

 

[dmc]

Bunch of jacka!!'s making fun of a very serouis incident. Find out the whole story before posting some stupid comments. This is a black eye for the whole industry just not the resort it happened to. State tramway inspectors will resolve this in a timely manner and be corrected. Let's hope the injured are ok and compensation will be apporiate when resovled.

The guys OK... Relax... Let's hope he doesn't sue that much..

Lawsuits... Yet another "black eye for the whole industry"... In fact maybe if Ski areas didn't have to pay out to insurance and lawsuits they could afford new chairs...

 

[Mark_151]

What compensation? Isn't there a law, at least in NH that covers ski areas from litigation by people utilizing the ski area's resources of their own free will?

 

[MRGisevil]

Shucks, guys, can't we all just get along

Things written in this forum are taken way too literally sometimes. No one meant any harm here; like OSME said, the guys were probably just trying to defuse the issue a bit :roll:

 

[billski]

Bunch of jacka!!'s making fun of a very serouis incident. Find out the whole story before posting some stupid comments. This is a black eye for the whole industry just not the resort it happened to. State tramway inspectors will resolve this in a timely manner and be corrected. Let's hope the injured are ok and compensation will be apporiate when resovled.

My daughter and I fell off a chairlift two years ago from a very good height in the same manner, though the cable did not de-rope. My wife was slammed into from behind and suffered a moderate concussion, requiring hospital treatment. In neither case did we have any interest in pursuing recourse or compensation.

 

[RISkier]

What compensation? Isn't there a law, at least in NH that covers ski areas from litigation by people utilizing the ski area's resources of their own free will?

I'm not a lawyer and I'm not familiar with the NH law but I'd be very surprised if any liability protection law would apply to events where injury resulted from this kind of event.

 

[Brettski]

AZ'ers.....Jackal's....very funny

Thanks for the input

 

[sledhaulingmedic]

I'm not a lawyer and I'm not familiar with the NH law but I'd be very surprised if any liability protection law would apply to events where injury resulted from this kind of event.

The fact that it involves a riding a lift, rather than the act of skiing/riding takes it into a whole different legal arena. NH is a little more "resort friendly" in this aspect. Many states treat lift operations as a "Common carrier", which is a rather stringent legal standard.

 

[billski]

I heard on the radio that he slid underneath the safety bar. Does this sound legit to you? I can't imagine that happening. I have seen plenty that don't lower their safety bar, however. Anyone got any insight? A link to the full story?

Bob, that happend to my daughter and I. We were on a hard plastic seat which was quite cold. My daughter, who was very small slid out first because she wasn't sitting against the chair back. I grabbed her hand, she was completely dangling, but I started to slide too. The operator saw us dangling and slammed on the brakes (it was still the right thing to do.) That just jolted us further. With no help coming (it did happen fast), I eventually ran out of strength to hold on when I couldn't pull the both of us back up. All the ski gear just made us heavier. and yes, the bar was down when I slid through. We plunged about 12 feet. She went first, I was extremely freaked because my skis were headed first toward her body. Missed by inches. From what I recall, there was not a footrest, just the hoizontal bar. I doubt it would have happened if it was a padded seat. Anyone familiar with that Sunapee lift?

(in the days before pads of any sort, the wooden slats kept you in place, wood slivers and all.)

 

[ckofer]

Let's just be thankful it didn't turn out worse.

 

[billski]

A-ha. It was North peak triple, which doesn't have foot rests. Various reports suggest it was a young teenager. Small stature makes it downright easy to slip out from under.
It has a pad, but the photos I see aren't accurate enought to ascertain how much friction these pads would have.

one report was that it was a 20 foot drop. I believe he broke his ankle, if I recall the report correctly.

 

[chfriend]

one report was that it was a 20 foot drop. I believe he broke his ankle, if I recall the report correctly.

I thought it was his elbow, either way it sucks.

 

[polski]

The most informative updates I've found at this point are by the Concord Monitor and WMUR.

 

[tcharron]

I heard on the radio that he slid underneath the safety bar. Does this sound legit to you? I can't imagine that happening. I have seen plenty that don't lower their safety bar, however. Anyone got any insight? A link to the full story?

"Barrett, whose agency inspects chairlifts, said a mechanical malfunction at the top tower caused the cable to wave, bouncing the chairs."

The bearings actually failed, so they would gank the lift pretty bad. I could def see it happening.