Mid-Atlantic Lift Accident at Tussey Mountain PA. Five Injured -12/16

[Laurel Hill Crazie]

A lift accident at Tussey Mountain near State College, PA left at least 5 people injured when a chair slid backwards on the haul line causing a domino pile up of 5 chairs. A rather choppy video here taken shortly after the accident show scenes of the sandwiched chairs with riders still in them. Fortunately there were no life threatening injuries. News report here

 

[Ken_R]

A lift accident at Tussey Mountain near State College, PA left at least 5 people injured when a chair slid backwards on the haul line causing a domino pile up of 4 chairs. a rather choppy video here taken shortly after the accident show scenes of the sandwiched chairs with riders still in them. Fortunately there were no life threatening injuries. News report here

Yikes!

 

[Core2]

holy sh*t

 

[crgildart]

High speed detachbles ROCK!

 

[Erik Timmerman]

High speed detachbles ROCK!

That appears to be a (not so) fixed grip.

 

[Karl B]

Definitely a fixed grip.

 

[crgildart]

That appears to be a (not so) fixed grip.

I thought you set the cable clamps!

 

[babanff]

That appears to be a (not so) fixed grip.

Yes fixed grip... and slooooooow! I spent many nights on that lift during my college ski team days. It was technically a quad... but they basically had soldered two double-chairs together to make it a quad. You could almost hike uphill faster than that lift moved.

 

[Uncle-A]

This is the first I have heard for this season 2017 - 2018.

Today five hurt at Tussey Mt. PA ski lift malfunction.

 

[Mendieta]

This is the first I have heard for this season 2017 - 2018.

Today five hurt at Tussey Mt. PA ski lift malfunction.

Yes -- there was another thread already, thanks to @Sibhusky for letting us know. It is all merged now!

 

[Carolinacub]

Y

I thought you set the cable clamps!

You had one job!!!!!

 

[graham418]

how long before this is a funny meme on pinterest? Insert funny caption here!!

 

[crgildart]

Anyone wonder how they passed the pre season load tests??

 

[François Pugh]

Time to re-calibrate that torque wrench!

 

[focker]

It's a warm ride for sure, but getting off at the top will be tough

 

[kimmyt]

Found this on reddit- yowch!

 

[crgildart]

^^^Did they have the bar up or bar down??

 

[1chris5]

I've never heard of Tussey Mountain in PA. Sounds like the bolted connection to the ski lift cable was loose. Shouldn't these connections be tightened at the beginning of each year? Hope everyone is ok. Tussey Link

 

[Sibhusky]

I'm thinking bar down would hold off the chair in front of you a bit, but nail the people behind you. So, I'm guessing he was in the chair behind.

 

[martyg]

Unfortunately, in many states, ski areas are held to a very low level. You would think that best practices would dictate that critical connections be torque checked at regular periods and safety wired - if not by law then by the interest of running a safe operation.

CA legislature recently passed a bill holding areas to some degree of accountability. Their governor vetoed it.