Zipline Accident Investigations In 2016, I co-authored "Zipline Injuries on the Rise" with Rex Bush, Esq., published on hg.org and in Utah Trial Journal (2017). The article said that zipline injuries were increasing, and a Granite Insurance–North Carolina presentation validated again in the 2023 Adventure Park Insider article, 15 accidents per 100,000 zipliners were seriously injured; over half were directly related to zipline braking failures and two-wheeled trolleys. As a zipline expert witness, I've investigated over 200 accidents, and their increasing. My investigations led directly to the invention of the 3-lb. RST-17. Above is the RST-V24 or friction braking trolley. We have five U.S. patents issued today. We developed the 3-lb. RSTs because our 25-lb. PCMR trolleys (RST-02) were too heavy. To mitigate injuries, our company Momentum Engineering, a DBA of ZipSafe, LLC, only sells service–proven, fail-safe-safe zipline systems with at least a 3:1 FoS. Our three brake ziplines keep all participants safe because being fail-safe-safe would have stopped this multi-million dollar settlement. We maximize your safety with every product we design and go beyond the minimum safety standards. We continue to develop more fail-safe-safe zipline braking systems, and our five US patents, three in the last three years, stop accidents. If your system has a 2:1 FoS, we hope you follow the braking standards and add another brake to slow your zipliners and decrease my zipline expert witness engagements (ten investigations annually). Mention this narrative when you place your order on www.zipsafe.org or call us directly to receive a 15% discount on products and services. |