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Man who died in skiing accident identified

Officials have identified a man who died Sunday night in a skiing accident at Blue Mountain Ski Area.

Noel J. Pagan Jr., 21, of Allentown, died around 6 p.m. after he went off a jump on the Yeti Trail, a beginner trail.

Pagan was not wearing a helmet. He was transported to St. Luke’s Palmerton Campus, where he later died.

Carbon County Coroner Robert Miller said the cause of death was blunt-force trauma to the head and neck.

Pagan’s death marked the second death at the resort this season.

On Jan. 1, Connor Golembiewski, 17, of Flemington, New Jersey fell off a ski lift.

The resort was also the site of two fatal crashes last year.

On March 15, 2018, 20-year-old Euna Shin of Piscataway, New Jersey, died from head injuries after a fall while snowboarding.

Grygoriy Sologub, 53, of Marcus Hook, outside of Philadelphia, died Jan. 21, 2018, from blunt-force trauma to the head and neck after another skier ran into him on a slope.