Lawsuit filed over death caused by zip line to man riding chair lift.
Posted: June 24, 2010 Filed under: Ski Area, Zip Line 1 CommentThis is complicated and confusing, but from what I can tell a zip line malfunctioned and it caused a man to fall to his death who was riding a chair lift over the zip line.
The facts just start bad. The deceased was on his honeymoon. He and his new wife had ridden one chair lift up to ride the zip line at Heavenly Mountain Resort. Once they got to the top of the lift they were told the deceased was too tall to ride the zip line. He and his wife wanted to walk down the mountain but they were told they had to ride the chair lift back down.
While riding down, a retrieval rope for the zip line became entangled in with the chair’s comfort bar. (Safety bar as described in the article.) The retrieval rope flipped the comfort bar up and rocked the deceased out of the chair. He fell 50’ to his death.
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as I read the article I kept thinking who let a person that is too tall even on the chair lift at the bottom of the hill?
Like roller coasters and other recreational areas why wasn't an operating procedure clearly posted like – You must be between this line and this line to ride.
A staff checklist of height requirements and operating procedures could have stopped this.
Also that sounds horrifying. The retrieval rope catching the chair lift and the man falling.
The zip line is negligible for this.
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