Does anyone know the context of this video?

14563564:teabag said:
What more do you need to know that isn’t on the video
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How and why it happened, how the resort addressed the issue, injury report, damage costs, law suits, public perception, and general aftermath.
 
14563572:STEEZUS_CHRI5T said:
How and why it happened, how the resort addressed the issue, injury report, damage costs, law suits, public perception, and general aftermath.
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Go do some research and report back.
 
that's terrifying. so happy only 11 had 'mild injuries'. idk how there weren't people crushed in that mass of chairs.

with that in mind this picture is pretty funny
gudauriaccident4.jpg


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14563582:GrapeHunter said:
to anybody wondering, Georgia is a country in eastern Europe above Armenia. not the southern USA Georgia

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one downvote is from an armenian
 
topic:STEEZUS_CHRI5T said:
[video]https://youtu.be/UaGTVUxj9h0?feature=shared[/video]

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It’s called a rollback. Pretty much the most dangerous thing that can happen to a lift. But there are emergency brakes put in place on all lifts to stop it if it does start. But I believe this was the operators
fault. He’s a test from Washington I believe where they had 100 pound pieces of stone on them.

[video]https://youtu.be/FwPP4i7ENvQ?si=pcKHl64Uv8PSCC41[/video]
 
The Unofficial Networks article about this incident said:

However, after the chairlift was stopped, the operator had to introduce specific sequence of procedures and after implementation of the certain actions, the operator had to switch the chairlift on to the diesel generator power and bring the tourist to the safe site where they would have left the chairlift.

Unfortunately, according to the current conclusion, the operator made a mistake. The combination of the actions that he should have had carried out were not implemented in compliance with the relevant instructions – it was a human error. “

I remember people shortly after this starting to question the industry standards of lift maintenance and operations at ski areas/resorts across Europe and starting inquiring within. I'd be curious to know what standards are in place, not that lift accidents don't happen in the North America. I believe there have been a couple in the last few seasons around the US alone involving older chairs.

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14563750:CoolChillGuy420 said:
The Unofficial Networks article about this incident said:

However, after the chairlift was stopped, the operator had to introduce specific sequence of procedures and after implementation of the certain actions, the operator had to switch the chairlift on to the diesel generator power and bring the tourist to the safe site where they would have left the chairlift.

Unfortunately, according to the current conclusion, the operator made a mistake. The combination of the actions that he should have had carried out were not implemented in compliance with the relevant instructions – it was a human error. “

I remember people shortly after this starting to question the industry standards of lift maintenance and operations at ski areas/resorts across Europe and starting inquiring within. I'd be curious to know what standards are in place, not that lift accidents don't happen in the North America. I believe there have been a couple in the last few seasons around the US alone involving older chairs.

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Dude definitely got trained in Russia.
 
14563727:McDanielsprite said:
It’s called a rollback. Pretty much the most dangerous thing that can happen to a lift. But there are emergency brakes put in place on all lifts to stop it if it does start. But I believe this was the operators
fault. He’s a test from Washington I believe where they had 100 pound pieces of stone on them.

[video]https://youtu.be/FwPP4i7ENvQ?si=pcKHl64Uv8PSCC41[/video]
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Thanks for digging this up!
 
Heres a good run down on the whole thing along with some technical stuff in the comments on the safety standards

https://liftblog.com/2018/03/23/government-human-error-caused-gudauri-rollback/

Basically the power went out and they were swapping the lift to the backup diesel engine from the main electric drive so they could run everyone off, but they released the brakes before the load was held by/ connected to the backup engine which then caused the lift to free spin backward as they had already opened the 3 different brakes too early- including the one that acts directly on to the bullwheel/ the big red wheel that spins the lift.

Pretty much all lift incidents like this are human error as the lifts have multiple redundancies to prevent gnarly shit like this from happening. We also regularly practice (safely) swapping the lifts to diesel/ evac just like schools do fire drills, to make sure the mtc crew is familiar with doing it quickly and correctly

But hey everyone affected was invited back to ski for free, so thats pretty legit

 
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