Cerro Catedral: the death of the chairlift worker was due to a “serious hemorrhage”

According to judicial sources, the team of forensic doctors said that the death of the chairlift worker was due to a serious external hemorrhage, product of the loss of a limb when he thawed the lifting chairs in the Cerro Catedral de Bariloche.La injury originated when the steel cable of a return pulley in the Condor II chairlift, in the ski center of Cerro Catedral de Bariloche, he sectioned one of the victim’s lower limbs. The forensic team reported that the hemorrhage caused hypovolemic shock in a few minutes. The team of prosecutors on duty ordered the performance of evidentiary measures within the framework of the investigation of the death of the victim, who 18 years ago worked as an operator of the chairlift.  The Public Prosecutor’s Office reported that “once the Rio Negro Police had been notified of the accident, the Public Prosecutor’s Office was informed. The prosecutor in turn Silvia Paolini, the deputy prosecutor Facundo D’Apice and the chief prosecutor Martín Lozada were present at the winter center to order the first measures of criminal investigation.

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