Tension system breaks during chairlift maintenance
Incident Investigation
Tension system breaks during chairlift maintenance
February 20, 2016
Passenger Ropeways
Reference Number:
5578579
Location: Agassiz
Description: A maintenance person was performing an adjustment of the chairlift tension counterweight position. The maintenance person released the safety anchor line for the tension system counterweight winch and began to turn the winch. The winch anti- rollback device metal casting broke.