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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police say a ski resort employee has died after his maintenance vehicle crashed down a steep ravine into a river.
Detective Ken Hansen of Salt Lake County's Unified Police Department says the 21-year-old man was apparently thrown from the large all-terrain vehicle at Snowbird resort on Monday morning.
Police say the vehicle went off the side of a parking lot, careened down a steep drop and came to rest upside-down in Little Cottonwood Creek.
The man's body was found about 50 yards away, after employees realized he'd been gone a long time and went looking for him.
The ski-lift operator was working alone and no one saw what caused the crash.
The man was taken to a nearby hospital but died of his injuries hours later. His name was not immediately released.
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