Ski areas’ reluctance to report fatal accidents

More than a week ago A 21-year-old Park City resident died from injuries sustained in a serious accident Friday at Park City Mountain Resort. 

The accident wasn’t reported to the public until the Summit County Sheriff’s Office got involved. Once more, the ski resort, like the rest of them in America tend to sweep fatal incidents under the rug. 

This kind of news is obviously not good PR, but by “burying” these kind of news, other skiers are never made fully aware of dangers that are lurking all around and collectively, never learn from them, which is highly regretable. 

In the case of that last victim, a ski coach, someone who obviously wasn’t a beginner skier, ski-patrollers found him at the bottom of what they estimated to be a 30-foot embankment at the bottom of the Temptation ski run. 

In spite of the care administered on the spot and transported to the Utah Hospital by helicopter in Salt Lake City, the victim was pronounced dead at the hospital.