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Ski lift-related fatalities in US are a fraction of fatalities in Europe (2012) [pdf]
- Someone 4y agoFTA: “While there have been 12 lift-related fatalities at American ski areas since 1973, over that same time frame, there have been at least 102 fatalities at European resorts from lift malfunctions – nine times the fatality rate of American ski areas” They don’t mention how many lifts/passenger miles there are in Europe, so I can’t tell whether that’s because of lifts being safer in the USA or because there are more lifts/more passenger miles in Europe. It could well be mostly the latter, as https://www.skiresort.info/ski-resorts/europe/ https://www.skiresort.info/ski-resorts/europe/ says there are 16,753 ski lifts in Europe, while this article says there are about 3,500 in the USA.
- dark-star 4y agoWhat a strange report. And an even stranger headline, since they only mention Europe in passing, while they properly analyze fatalities only in the US (and contrast them to fatalities in cars/elevators): For the US, they break it down into fatalities per passenger-mile travelled, yet for Europe, they just state the raw number "fatalities since date X". I would assume that in Europe there are a lot more people on a lot more ski lifts, so that the "per-passenger-mile-travelled" numbers are comparable or even lower in Europe (since building standards there are much higher than in the US)