Workplace and Public Safety Incidents

Mammoth Mountain in California says 30-year-old ski patroller Cole Murphy died Sunday from injuries sustained when he and another patroller were caught in an avalanche on Lincoln Mountain around 7:30 a.m. Friday while conducting avalanche mitigation work before the resort opened. The second patroller suffered serious injuries requiring hospital care outside the area as the resort, which had received more than five feet of snow in 72 hours, shut all operations Friday and remained closed Saturday due to extreme avalanche danger.