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Bromley Ski centre admits fault in accident
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The parents of five-year-old Jennifer Hutson have welcomed the outcome of a court hearing about an injury their daughter suffered at the Bromley ski centre in Kent three years ago.
Jennifer was using a small ski lift during a lesson, when she forgot to get off. She grabbed the low-level wire that operated the lift, was pulled upwards, became stuck in the mechanism and was left dangling above the ground. She was rushed to hospital with a ' flattened' hand...
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) stated the accident happened at the centre because of a problem with one of the lift's two emergency stop devices. The second device was positioned too close to the machine's wheel to function properly.
Bromley Ski Centre had admitted liability for the accident before the case came to court. The Hutsons received an undisclosed sum in compensation. The HSE issued the centre with a number of health and safety requirements it needed to follow, which have now been met. But the HSE health and safety inspector involved in the case also stated that it would have been impossible for the centre to predict the accident happening.
http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/display.var.801146.0.ski_centre_admits_fault_in_accident.php
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But the HSE health and safety inspector involved in the case also stated that it would have been impossible for the centre to predict the accident happening.
Presumably that means that there is no way of testing the efficacy of emergency stop devices, without a real accident.
That seems unfortunate, to put it mildly. Poor little girl, I wonder if she ever wanted to try ski-ing again?
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, I would rig a simple test hand. We used to use test fingers to check that electrical terminals were touch safe.
THere may already be a set of (small/large/male/female) international standards for this - there is for most things like this.
I always look at rope tows and shudder.
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Usually with any form of drag lift, be it rope tow, T-bar or Button there is some form of safety bar or cord in front of the top station which causes the machine to stop instantly when the cord or bar is touched, in this case it sounds like the distance between the safety switch and the mechanism was too close, but it does surprise me as normally the idea is that there should be a good meter or more between the two which should be enough to stop such incidents occuring
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