19-year-old dies in fall from Park City chairlift

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Updated: January 30, 2012 9:30AM

A 19-year-old University of Utah student has died after falling about 30 feet from a Park City ski resort’s chairlift.

Canyons Ski Resort spokesman Steve Pastorino says the woman may have been suffering a medical episode when she fell from the High Meadow lift just before noon on Sunday.

He says ski patrol workers arrived within a one minute of the fall to give first aid. She was pronounced dead about two hours later.

Resort officials say the lift is on a slope used for beginners and has chairs with safety bars. Investigators aren’t sure whether the woman was using the bar when she fell.

Her name has not yet been released.