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Colorado rejects effort to require ski areas to report injuries
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Senate Bill 184 would have forced resorts to be transparent
Thursday, April 15, 2021 7:34 PM Ski patrollers tend to an injured skier in Vail’s Game Creek Bowl on Dec. 11. Jason Blevins/The Colorado Sun
Colorado rejects effort to require ski areas to report injuries Ski patrollers tend to an injured skier in Vail’s Game Creek Bowl on Dec. 11. Jason Blevins/The Colorado Sun
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Colorado state lawmakers on Thursday killed a bill that would have required ski areas to publish ski injury statistics and safety plans.
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On Christmas Eve 2020, Etthan Mañon, an eighteen-year-old from the Dominican Republic, died after a skiing accident at Echo Mountain. It took rescuers more than an hour to extricate Mañon from the trees where he d crashed, and that passage of time may well have spelled the difference between survival and losing his life.
Although everything about the incident was tragic, Mañon s death appears to have gone unreported for months, until a March 23
Colorado Sun article previewed a new bill about transparency related to ski resort accidents and safety plans. The measure will be discussed by a Colorado Legislature committee today, April 15, and Danilda Streeb, Mañon s aunt, who lives in Denver and is still reeling from her nephew s passing, supports it wholeheartedly, even as she expresses astonishment that such mandates aren t already in place.
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A bill before lawmakers this week would require Colorado ski resorts to publicly report injury and fatality statistics, a measure that’s being met with strong resistance from the ski industry and its backers. Proponents say such a law would force resorts to be more accountable for safety problems.
“The bill is a fairly straightforward approach to try and find out where there are problem areas that are causing significant safety concerns,” said Jessie Danielson, D-Jefferson County, one of the bill’s sponsors.
Senate Bill 184, titled “Ski Area Safety Plans and Accident Reporting,” is slated for a hearing on Thursday. Under it, resorts would also be required to publish safety plans that indicate what they are doing to reduce injuries and fatalities.