Man dies from injury after falling from the chairman in the montan ski resort star-news.press/wp

Billings, Mont. – The 37-year-old man died after falling from the chairman who had a mechanical problem on the Montana ski resort, according to the local sheriff and a spokesperson for Mount Red Lodge.

The man was driving alone in a quarterly chair that carries skiers along the mountain when he fell from an unspecified height, toward the ordnance of Mountain spokesman Troy Hawks. The accident occurred on Monday just before noon on the ski area southeast of Beartooth mountains.

Jeffrey Zinnne from the baton was taken to the collection hospital in which she died on Tuesday evening from injury suffers in the fall, said Sheriff Carbon County Josh Mcquillan.

Elevator, known as a triple chair, was stopped after the accident. More than 100 people who were on it evacuates the ski patrols who used the ropes to lower the country.

Falcons said that the elevator had a mechanical problem fell, Zinna fell, but refused to comment further and says that the circumstances were explored. They also considered the weather conditions and procedures of the victim, he said.

In the morning of the accident, some other chairpersons on the mountain Red Lodge are not working due to high winds. The windfalls around 50 mph (80.4 km / h) were soon recorded in the area before and after the accident, according to the National Time Service.

Sowks said that the triple chairman, which is almost a kilometer (1.6 kilometers) long and built in 1983. years, worked within security parameters. It will remain extinguished while the engineer does not fully judge him, Hawks said.

Fatal accidents for lifting on ski areas are relatively rare, according to national ski resort associations. Between 1956. and 2024, 35 people died in accidents involving the chairperson and air ropes. Sixteen deaths is associated with mechanical failures, according to the data collected by the Group.

The latest death at the time was 2020. year, when a man died Colorado’s Vail Resort Once his clothes are stuck in part of the chairman, which cannot breathe.