DULUTH, MN (WTAQ) – The mother of an 8-year-old Wisconsin boy said a helmet saved her son from death or a serious brain injury, after he fell 25-feet from a chair lift at a ski hill.
Cameron Jones of Solon Springs still suffered serious injuries that included a broken pelvis, liver, and rib.
It happened Friday afternoon during a ski trip by home-schooled students at Spirit Mountain in Duluth. It was the second of two falls from chair-lifts at the ski hill on Friday. The other victim was not seriously hurt.
Cameron’s mother Donna Jones tells the Duluth News-Tribune that her son did not remember the fall at first — but details started coming back to him on Saturday. She said Cameron would have died or a had a traumatic brain injury had he not been wearing a helmet on the chair-lift.
Spirit Mountain said the two falls were isolated incidents, and were not related.
SkiSafety.Com said chairlift deaths are rare. There have only been 15 in the past 40 years.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)