Anderson v. Heron Engineering Co.

The plaintiff, Donald Anderson, was injured while riding a chair lift at the Keystone ski area when the chair in front of him slipped back along the cable, striking his chair and knocking him thirty feet to the ground. The trial court entered judgment on a jury verdict for the defendant and the court of appeals affirmed. Anderson v. Heron Engineering Company, 40 Colo. App. 191, 575 P.2d 16, 17-18 (1977). We reverse.

The cause of the mishap was traced to failure of a cable clamp unit to secure the chair to the cable. The cable clamp unit had been designed, fabricated, and sold by the defendant,…