The Lift Mechanic Who Could (SMR accident)

[billski]

A year ago, following a harrowing 30-foot fall from a lift tower, Ron Chadwick wasn’t sure he’d ever walk again. And he wondered if he’d be able to return to his job as a lift-maintenance worker at Stowe Mountain Resort.


Miraculously, Chadwick has done both.

He’s walking, albeit with crutches, and earlier this month he returned to work exactly one year after the accident.

Chadwick, 47, and another maintenance worker were injured when they fell from a lift tower at Stowe Mountain Resort on Sept. 2, 2009. The accident occurred on tower 10 of the Sunny Spruce quad lift on Spruce Peak.


Chadwick, 46, broke both legs in several places and also broke his ankle in the fall.
The other worker, Brooke Kasman of Stowe, amazingly escaped the frightening fall with only minor injuries.


Chadwick and Kasman were performing routine maintenance on the cable wheels that haul the chairs up the mountain, when somehow the cable detached from the tower and crashed to the ground. Both Chadwick and Kasman were in a basket attached to the loose cable.


“I knew right away that both my legs were broken below the knee,” Chadwick said.


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[bvibert]

Wow, that is quite the story! I'm glad he's on the long road to recovery and seems to be doing well.

 

[mondeo]

Miraculously, Chadwick has done both.

He’s walking, albeit with crutches, and earlier this month he returned to work exactly one year after the accident.

Chadwick, 47, and another maintenance worker were injured when they fell from a lift tower at Stowe Mountain Resort on Sept. 2, 2009. The accident occurred on tower 10 of the Sunny Spruce quad lift on Spruce Peak.


Chadwick, 46, broke both legs in several places and also broke his ankle in the fall.
The other worker, Brooke Kasman of Stowe, amazingly escaped the frightening fall with only minor injuries.

Even more miraculous, he has two ages. Does he exist within a distortion of space and time? Was the story published in reverse, at the exact moment he turned 47? Was he born as a blastocyst, developing outside the womb, so they track both the age of his birth and the age he was legally determined to be human?

I want answers!

 

[billski]

Even more miraculous, he has two ages. Does he exist within a distortion of space and time? Was the story published in reverse, at the exact moment he turned 47? Was he born as a blastocyst, developing outside the womb, so they track both the age of his birth and the age he was legally determined to be human?

I want answers!

Nice to see someone asking the hard questions, probing the depth of socioeconomic impact and worldwide capitalism. Besides, I like my tacos fried.