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SOLITUDE, Utah, Jan. 2, 2019 (Gephardt Daily) — A 9-year-old boy fell 40 feet from a ski lift at Solitude Wednesday afternoon.
Unified Police Department Sgt. Melody Gray told Gephardt Daily the boy was taken to the clinic at the resort and is conscious, breathing and alert.
She said it’s not clear at this time exactly where the incident occurred in the resort, at 12000 Big Cottonwood Canyon Road, or why the boy fell from the lift.
Last week an 8-year-old boy sustained minor injuries after falling 33 feet from a ski lift at Nordic Valley in Weber County.
Gephardt Daily will have more on this developing story as information is made available.
My son is the one that fell. Our family is visiting Utah from Virginia. Three of our boys, 9, 12, and 14, all of whom are good skiers, were on a lift together and had not yet pulled the safety bar down. The 9 year-old, thinking the bar was down, leaned forward to look down and then lost his balance and fell out of the chair over the mogul section under the moonbeam express lift. According to him, he landed feet first perpendicular to the slope in some soft snow, momentarily fell to the side and then popped back up and skied himself down to the bottom where he met up with the resorts’ medical staff. Although he was saying he wasn’t hurt, because of the height of the fall and because he was visibly pretty shaken up, to be safe the resort team immobilized him and he was eventually taken in an ambulance to Primary Children’s hospital where they were able to confirm that, very fortunately, he had no visible or internal injuries at all. Underterred by the event, he has asked to go skiing with us again today.
So glad to hear your son is ok Scott, he’ll have quite a story to tell!