FOX 13 Investigates: Utah ski resort cited, fined $2,500 for employee's death
The citation from Utah Occupational Safety and Health rated the violation as “serious.” An accompanying report describes what was happening at the Short Cut chairlift before 29-year-old Christian Helger got aboard. Helger, a ski patroller at the resort, was thrown from the chair lift and fell about 50 feet into deep snow.
The accident happened the morning of Jan. 2 after storms dumped about 48 inches of snow on Park City over two days, according to the report. The day before the accident, a tree also fell on Short Cut, employees told an investigator. The lift was stopped while staff removed that tree. Another worker, identified only as Employee #5, the investigator wrote, “said that he was never told to check the tree corridor during the opening Line Ride as a Lift Operator.
“They don't train their employees,” Heggie said of Park City Mountain Resort. “The ski lift operators don't have the training like the ski patrol has, they don't have the training to look for ski hazards when they do that first run in the morning.” “What [the ski industry has] probably learned is maybe being a little bit more hyper vigilant with regards to tree loading,” Doll said.
“With that type of a hit from the weight of that type of a tree with that much snow on it,” Heggie said, “I don't know that the safety bar would have prevented this incident.”
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