2016-2017 In bound ski/board fatalities
Posted: January 25, 2017 Filed under: Avalanche, Ski Area, Skier v. Skier, Skiing / Snow Boarding, Snow Tubing | Tags: avalanche, Collision, fatality, In Bounds, Natural Causes, ski area, ski instructor, skiing, snowboarding, Tree Well 2 CommentsThis list is not guaranteed to be accurate. The information is found from web searches and news dispatches. Those references are part of the chart. If you have a source for information on any fatality please leave a comment or contact me. Thank you.
If this information is incorrect or incomplete please let me know. This is up to date as of January 21, 2017. Thanks.
Skiing and Snowboarding are still safer than being in your kitchen or bathroom. This information is not to scare you away from skiing but to help you understand the risks.
Red type is natural or medical conditions that occurred inbounds on the slopes
Green Type is Fatalities while sledding at the Resort
Blue Type is a Lift Accidents
Purple Type is Employee or Ski Patroller
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# |
Date |
State |
Resort |
Where |
Trail Difficulty |
How |
Cause of death |
Ski/ Board |
Age |
Sex |
Home town |
Helmet |
Reference |
Ref # 2 |
|
1 |
11/26 |
CO |
Keystone |
Elk Run |
Intermediate |
Hit lift tower at high speed |
|
Skier |
18 |
M |
LA |
Y |
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|
2 |
12/10 |
VT |
Killington Ski Area |
|
Intermediate |
Found dead |
|
Skier |
65 |
M |
Lagrangeville, NY |
|
||
|
3 |
12/11 |
CA |
Northstar |
Village Run |
Expert (off duty ski instructor) |
hit several rocks and crashed into a creek avoiding other skier |
|
Skier |
35 |
M |
Incline Village, NV & Kings Beach |
Y |
||
|
4 |
12/11 |
NV |
Alpental Ski area |
|
|
Tree Well |
death was asphyxia due to immersion in snow |
Skier |
45 |
M |
|
|
||
|
5 |
12/11 |
NV |
Mt. Rose |
The Chutes |
|
Avalanche in closed run |
|
Skier |
60 |
M |
|
|
||
|
6 |
12/12 |
VT |
Killington Ski Area |
|
|
|
|
Skier |
80 |
M |
Wappingers Falls, NY |
|
|
|
|
7 |
12/19 |
CO |
Keystone |
Alpine Alley |
|
Hit a tree |
accidental blunt force trauma |
|
48 |
M |
Longmont CO |
Y |
||
|
8 |
12/29 |
CO |
Ski Granby Ranch |
Quick Draw Express lift |
|
Fell out of chair lift |
traumatic rupture of the aorta and blunt force trauma to the torso |
Skier |
40 |
F |
San Antonio, TX |
|
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/12/29/mom-dies-daughters-hurt-chairlift/95988502/ |
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|
9 |
12/31 |
UT |
Snowbasin |
|
|
Hit tree |
|
Skier |
24 |
M |
Ogden, UT |
Y |
||
|
10 |
1/1/17 |
MI |
Crystal Mountain |
Penny Lane |
Intermediate |
lost control and veered into a tree |
crash cracked Delaney’s helmet and caused a serious brain injury |
Skier |
10 |
F |
La Grange, IL |
Y |
||
|
11 |
1/1 |
OR |
Mt. Baker |
|
|
Found slumped over snowmobile |
|
|
67 |
M |
|
|
|
|
|
12 |
1/7 |
VT |
Killington |
Skyeship Gondola |
|
Found on Floor |
Fall |
|
|
M |
|
|
|
|
|
13 |
1/13 |
CO |
Breckenridge |
|
Expert |
Found by ski patrol |
Skull Fracture |
|
47 |
M |
Longmot, CO |
N |
||
|
13 |
1/16 |
VT |
Sugar Bush |
Mount Ellen |
|
Hit Tree |
Hampden |
Skier |
39 |
M |
Hampden, MA |
N |
||
|
14 |
|
PA |
Shawnee Mountain Ski Area |
|
|
lost control and struck an orange safety fence |
|
|
15 |
F |
Singapore |
|
||
|
|
1/14 |
UT |
Brighton Ski Resort |
|
|
hit a tree |
|
Boarder |
35 |
M |
Millcreek, UT |
|
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|
|
1/14 |
NY |
Belleayre Mountain Ski Center |
Wanatuska Trail |
Expert |
|
|
Boarding |
25 |
M |
Centersport, NY |
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Good morning!
I’m wondering what you mean by “skiing and snowboarding are safer than being in your kitchen or bathroom?”
I’m guessing based on gut feelings about relative safety that this statement refers to the lifetime risk of an injury while in a kitchen or bathroom, as opposed to injury per user-hour. Is that correct? If so, I’m wondering where that data came from, since I do love comparing user hours 🙂
Cheers!
-Dante Broadbent
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Data came from mixing up two different stats and using them in one sentence. You are right, just bathroom is most dangerous place in the house and skiing and snowboarding are not really much different from other recreational activities. No science or stats involved.
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