After the fatal accident occurred during the revision of the cable car on the Titlis on Wednesday, the cable car company resumed the overhaul work. The three wounded transported to extra-cantonal hospitals are doing better than expected.
Inspection of the scene of the accident. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone, Engelberg, June 5, 2019) An employee of the Titlis was so injured that he died at the scene of the accident. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone, Engelberg, June 5, 2019) Two other people involved in the work were seriously injured and one person was seriously injured, police said. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone, Engelberg, June 5, 2019) The three wounded were transported by Rega for further treatment in cantonal outlying hospitals. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone, Engelberg, June 5, 2019) The health status of these people could not be specified. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone, Engelberg, June 5, 2019)The accident at work occurred at Gerschnialp. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone, Engelberg, June 5, 2019) Three people were slightly injured and treated on the spot. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone, Engelberg, June 5, 2019)Inspection of the scene of the accident. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone, Engelberg, June 5, 2019)The accident at work occurred at Gerschnialp. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone, Engelberg, June 5, 2019)Employees of the cable cars and Bergbahnen as well as those of Bergbahnen Engelberg-Titlis worked in the morning on the Gerschnialp on the cableway cable, the temporary support coming off the junction of the lifting cable, after which the workers were affected by the conveyor and the rescue rope. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone, Engelberg, June 5, 2019)The rope to be shortened is suspended. A cable car mast at the scene of the accident. (Image: Keystone / Urs Flüeler, June 5, 2019) A cable car mast at the scene of the accident. (Image: Keystone / Urs Flüeler, June 5, 2019) The tragic accident at Gerschnialp killed a member of the Titlis cable car. (Image: Keystone / Urs Flüeler, June 5, 2019) The tragic accident casts a shadow on the Alpidyl on the Gerschni. (Image: Keystone / Urs Flüeler, June 5, 2019) Adhesive tape closed the accident area on the Gerschnialp above Engelberg. (Image: Keystone / Urs Flüeler, June 5, 2019)Investigations at the scene of the accident. (Image: Keystone / Urs Flüeler, June 5, 2019) Closed: The cantonal police investigate the place of the accident. (Image: Keystone / Urs Flüeler, June 5, 2019) An Obwald cantonal police vehicle at the scene of the accident. (Image: Keystone / Urs Flüeler, June 5, 2019) Only one of the two lifting ropes is suspended at this location: a cable car mast at the crash site on the Gerschnialp. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone, Engelberg, June 5, 2019) The investigation of the accident and the cause of the accident began on the site. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone, Engelberg, June 5, 2019) The investigation of the accident and the cause of the accident began on the site. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone, Engelberg, June 5, 2019)The investigation of the accident and the cause of the accident began on the site. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone, Engelberg, June 5, 2019) The police station closed the scene of the accident. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone, Engelberg, June 5, 2019) The police station closed the scene of the accident. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone, Engelberg, June 5, 2019)The police station closed the scene of the accident. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone, Engelberg, June 5, 2019)The police station closed after an accident during the inspection of the gondola between Engelberg and Trübsee. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone, Engelberg, June 5, 2019)The fatal accident occurred when the cable car was overhauled between Engelberg and Trübsee. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone, Engelberg, June 5, 2019) Inspection on site: Norbert Patt, general manager of Titlis lifts, during the inspection of the place of the accident. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone, Engelberg, June 5, 2019) CEO of Titlis lifts, Norbert Patt, during the inspection of the accident site. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone, Engelberg, June 5, 2019)The police station closed the scene of the accident. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone, Engelberg, June 5, 2019) The press conference starts at the Terrace Hotel in Engelberg. Seated at the table (v.l.n.r.) Marco Niederberger of the cantonal police Obwalden; Bernhard Schöni, Attorney General of the Canton of Obwalden; Hans Wicki, Chairman of the Titlisbahnen Board of Directors; Norbert Patt, CEO of Titlis lifts and Garaventa's boss, Arno Inauen. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone, Engelberg, June 5, 2019) Sad faces at the Titlisbahnen: Hans Wicki (left), chairman of the board, and Norbert Patt, managing director, at the press conference at the Terrace Hotel in Engelberg. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone, Engelberg, June 5, 2019) Obwalden's attorney, Bernhard Schöni, at the press conference at the Terrace Hotel in Engelberg. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone, Engelberg, June 5, 2019) Sad faces at the Titlisbahnen: Hans Wicki (left), chairman of the board, and Norbert Patt, managing director, at the press conference at the Terrace Hotel in Engelberg. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone, Engelberg, June 5, 2019) Marco Niederberger of the cantonal police of Obwalden at the press conference at the Terrace Hotel in Engelberg. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone, Engelberg, June 5, 2019) Hans Wicki, Council of States of Nidwalden, who chairs Titlisbahnen's board of directors, alongside CEO Norbert Patt at the press conference held at the Terrace Hotel in Engelberg. (Image: Urs Flüeler / Keystone, Engelberg, June 5, 2019)
Tragic cable car accident during revision work on the Titlis making one dead and several seriously injured
(SDA)
"You are out of danger," said Thursday at the request of the Keystone-SDA news agency, Norbert Patt, CEO of Titlis Bahnen. Fortunately, they were not hurt as badly as you had initially assumed.
The revision work was resumed Thursday. With other teams, as Patt said. Some workers, present at the accident yesterday, explicitly wished to start again.
If all goes as planned, the accident-hit Achter-Gondelbahn Engelberg-Trübsee ("Titlis-Express") will be back on Saturday and testing will take place on Friday, Patt said.
On Wednesday morning, the overhaul of the Engelberg OW – Trübsee cable car in the rope connection area was unexplained for unexplained reasons, the transport cables were loose and had risen upwards. Several workers were affected, one of them being dead.
Two workers were seriously injured and one moderately. They were flown to cantonal hospitals. Three people were slightly injured and could be treated on the spot.
