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I just had this thought last weekend while skiing with my kid
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Like the Ski lifts? Actually pretty hard to fall out. It's balanced with your weight around 20-30% to the back, bit like a rocking chair. It's easy to throw yourself into the landing, because the upper body rocks the whole chair forward with your ski's hitting the ground usually. Tho... it's fairly common for some newer people to take an extra spin around their first time on the hill. >

Quoted as the safest mode of transportation in North America.  Source: pub quiz masters everywhere 
The supporting math apparently looks at fatalities per passenger mile... >

I'm shocked that it beats airplaines. They travel way further and are very safe. Maybe it is because there are few fatalities for chairlift? I wonder what the numbers look like for smaller injuries. >

Yea but the lifts ate just going on a continuous circle for at least 8 hours a day with you riding it multiple times. I can totally see it evening out. >

How many times do you need to ride to just match the distance taxiing to the runway? One flight is probably more distance than 99% of people's yearly chairlift distance. >

They might include deaths not directly related to flying, like if someone has a heart attack on a plane >

I snowboard every season, if anything my biggest fear is seating next to a psychopath that could push me off the chair. Nobody would know =/ >

The people in the chair behind you would definitely know >

I agree. Seems like lots of people don’t like to bother with lowering the bar.    
I’m always afraid that a gust of wind pushing down on my board at the same time I’m a little off balance because of adjusting a glove or bumping over one of the tower transitions and I would be off.
But I’ve never actually seen or heard of anyone falling off in real life, and if it happened even rarely, they would probably force people to use the bar out of liability >

That exact situation happened on the chair in front of me in the late 90s. Didn’t put the bar down, chairs kept being stopped due to wind. Chair swung forward and right out from under the girl. Didn’t not end well for her and the screams of agony from her and her father who did not fall from the chair, I will never forget. Angel Fire New Mexico about 1996 >

You sound like Robert Shaw in Jaws. >

Boy do I have the terrible movie for you, Frozen 2010.
3 kids gets stuck on a ski lift for 90 minutes >

I still think they could have strung their clothes together for a makeshift rope. >

You're forgetting the wolves >

You're right! They could have strung the wolves together to make a rope! >

Even if it comes to a standstill without the bar down you won’t fall forward. I believe it’s actually a law in VT to have the bar down. >

I haven't seen a bar on a ski lift in my area - Upper Michigan >

We hear you! We've taken extra safety measures to make sure that doesn't happen, but we appreciate the heads up - just in case! >

are you the chairlift gods?