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02-25-2020, 11:06 AM #226Registered User
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02-25-2020, 12:49 PM #227
Victim was an MD at Credit Suisse. This is going to be one impressive settlement.
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02-25-2020, 04:41 PM #228Registered User
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I was ready to load a chair at vail (skyline in fact, IIRC), and the chair came around with the safety bar down. Everyone was heads-up enough to scramble, in a panic, into the pit in front of the loading zone. So thankfully no incident/injury. But the chair did not stop or slow, until we were all well out of the way (and in fact until the next chair had already loaded).
So evidently they don’t have that sensor.
Detachable chairs are safer, largely, but a side effect is the lift op is not necessarily paying any attention (don’t have to bump, so unless doing ramp work, are most likely holed up in the shack, looking at porn or whatever on their phone).
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02-25-2020, 05:19 PM #229Registered User
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02-25-2020, 05:25 PM #230
Loss of earning is substantial.
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02-25-2020, 05:29 PM #231
Managing Directors at major financial services firms are well compensated. At 46, he had 10-15 years of serious earning ahead of him, which means a substantial damages claim in the wrongful death action. High potential damages and the prospect of some very negative press as the litigation progresses will likely make VA eager to settle.
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02-25-2020, 05:49 PM #232Registered User
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02-25-2020, 05:51 PM #233
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02-25-2020, 06:56 PM #234
There's security cameras everywhere now. I'd bet a beer the whole thing is on a HD somewhere.
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02-25-2020, 07:30 PM #235
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02-25-2020, 07:52 PM #236
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02-26-2020, 12:28 PM #237
Uh, oh, time for major thread revision. Reports are this guy did not fall through chair.
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02-26-2020, 01:17 PM #238Registered User
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no one really knows what happened
multiple stories sheriff corner and vail are very tight lipped small town at it's best
read an article in the denver post today and the state run tramway board won't say a thing, not statement no nothing
the article list incidents publicly but will not list what lift and resort the incidents happened at, that sounds like alot of bs to me
it's going to take five years and a room full of lawyers to get the truth out
even if the seat was down, the riders had a problem and the lifty wasn't paying attention the least bit and didn't hit the stop button until it was too late
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02-26-2020, 02:50 PM #239Registered User
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02-26-2020, 03:08 PM #240
No eyewitnesses? Was nobody there to see this?
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02-26-2020, 03:32 PM #241Registered User
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Here's the latest I've seen: https://www.denverpost.com/2020/02/2...investigation/
Not that it makes anything much clearer. What I can't understand is: according to that article, the deceased loaded the lift with his friend he was skiing with. Evidently they both had to bail off the lift - the one guy died, and the other sounds like he was fine. How do we not know every detail, since there was an eyewitness...ON THE CHAIR WHERE IT HAPPENED? And what, were those two the only ones skiing that day? How are there not more witnesses?
It makes sense that Vail is not revealing any details, as there will surely be litigation. But how have no witnesses come forward in the press or social media (not that I would see it in the latter, because...fuck social media!)? Seems pretty strange.
P.S. As mentioned in the article (but not related to this incident)...WTF is a "professional slackliner"? Did not know that was a thing.
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02-26-2020, 03:35 PM #242
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02-26-2020, 03:39 PM #243Registered User
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02-26-2020, 03:46 PM #244Banned
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02-26-2020, 03:47 PM #245Registered User
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02-26-2020, 05:13 PM #246
It's riding a lift part of skiing, and therefore covered? It is like saying getting hit while standing on a ski run while skis is not skiing because, well you are standing not skiing. How about if you are side slipping or snow plowing, is that really skiing. What happens when you fall and are sliding or tumbling, technically you are no longer skiing, right?
I agree it is a constitutional right for Americans to be assholes...its just too bad that so many take the opportunity...iscariot
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02-26-2020, 09:00 PM #247
The Colorado Ski Safety Act defines “inherent dangers and risks of skiing” as "those dangers or conditions that are part of the sport of skiing, including changing weather conditions; snow conditions as they exist or may change, such as ice, hard pack, powder, packed powder, wind pack, corn, crust, slush, cut-up snow, and machine-made snow; surface or subsurface conditions such as bare spots, forest growth, rocks, stumps, streambeds, cliffs, extreme terrain, and trees, or other natural objects, and collisions with such natural objects; impact with lift towers, signs, posts, fences or enclosures, hydrants, water pipes, or other man-made structures and their components; variations in steepness or terrain, whether natural or as a result of slope design, snowmaking or grooming operations, including but not limited to roads, freestyle terrain, jumps, and catwalks or other terrain modifications; collisions with other skiers; and the failure of skiers to ski within their own abilities. The term “inherent dangers and risks of skiing” does not include the negligence of a ski area operator as set forth in section 33-44-104(2) . Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the liability of the ski area operator for injury caused by the use or operation of ski lifts."
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02-26-2020, 10:21 PM #248Registered User
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What @altasnob said.
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04-10-2020, 07:18 PM #249
looks like the blame is being put on the lifty.....
Report: Colorado ski attendant inattentive during lift death
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
VAIL — A Colorado ski lift operator was not paying attention when a New Jersey man suffocated after his coat got caught on the lift and kept him from breathing, authorities said in a report.
Jason Varnish, 46, died of positional asphyxia at Vail Mountain’s Blue Sky Basin area Feb. 13, the Eagle County coroner said.
Varnish had been skiing with a friend. The men were attempting to board a chairlift when Varnish’s clothing caught on a rubber stopper on the seat, an Eagle County Sheriff’s Office incident report released Wednesday said.
Varnish was lifted 20 to 25 feet off the ground, the report said, adding that Varnish’s companion “hollered to the lift operator to stop the lift.”
“The lift operator was not paying attention and had been cleaning off snow in the area,” the report said.
“Jason was struggling, trying to get unhooked and getting his coat unzipped,” the report said.
Resort guests tried unsuccessfully to form a human pyramid to push up Varnish’s legs and feet, the report said, noting the operator initially said he could not reverse the lift without permission.
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04-10-2020, 08:32 PM #250
It's not a good situation from any view.
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