Potter County Coroner Kevin Dusenbury says Ian Miller, of Pottstown, was hurt when his plastic, saucer-shaped sled hit a metal ski lift tower shortly after 11 p.m. Friday. Miller was with a Boy Scout group, members of which offered first aid before he was taken to Charles Cole Memorial Hospital in Coudersport, where he died shortly after 1 a.m. Saturday.
Miller's death is the second fatality in slightly more than a year at the Ski Denton resort about 140 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
On Jan. 5, 2009, 13-year-old Patrick Shire, of Haymarket, Va., was killed in a skiing accident.