AK worker injured

mousermerf

mousermerf

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ORLANDO, Fla. -- A Walt Disney World worker was seriously injured after she apparently fell off of a platform at the Animal Kingdom theme park.Disney officials said the woman, who was seriously injured five days ago on the Primeval Whirl children's ride, took a turn for the worst Wednesday night.

The ride attendant was standing in a place that was typically off limits to employees and was hit by a moving ride car, a Disney representative said.

The victim hit her head during the fall, according to the report.Since the woman was breathing and conscious, Disney did not call the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. However, on Wednesday, OSHA was notified of the incident, Local 6 reported.

Disney officials said there does not appear to be a problem with the attraction.

OSHA and the Orange County Sheriff's Office are investigating the accident.

http://www.local6.com/news/14722538/detail.html
 
MythBuster

MythBuster

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mousermerf said:
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A Walt Disney World worker was seriously injured after she apparently fell off of a platform at the Animal Kingdom theme park.Disney officials said the woman, who was seriously injured five days ago on the Primeval Whirl children's ride, took a turn for the worst Wednesday night.

The ride attendant was standing in a place that was typically off limits to employees and was hit by a moving ride car, a Disney representative said.

The victim hit her head during the fall, according to the report.Since the woman was breathing and conscious, Disney did not call the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. However, on Wednesday, OSHA was notified of the incident, Local 6 reported.

Disney officials said there does not appear to be a problem with the attraction.

OSHA and the Orange County Sheriff's Office are investigating the accident.

http://www.local6.com/news/14722538/detail.html
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From what my sources tell me is that she is a new employee, just finished training( I don't know how well she was trained?) and she was at the Load postion and dispatched the ride vehicle, then must have seen something wrong or something and reached to check something or grab something and got tangled up in the vehicle and it drug her about 15 -20 ft and around the corner and finally hit her head on a platform. The part that doesn't make sense is....where was the tower operator? The vehicle was dragging her in front of the tower the whole way and around the corner, was the tower operator even paying attention??? One these days, someone will get killed on that ride, and then they will actually pay to attention to safety then. AK has the worst safety record when it comes to cast member injuries and nothing gets done about it.
 
SoFlaDisneyFan

SoFlaDisneyFan

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::praying for a full and complete recovery::

Attention WDW Management: Consider this incident a perfect reason to rip Chester and Hester's crap-o-licous Dino-Rama off the DAK map!
 
bigtotoro

bigtotoro

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So basically she was in a place she was not supposed to be, doing something she probably should not be doing, right? Outside of maybe making the arguement that she was poorly trained (and the fact that they did not call OSHA immediately), how can you blame Disney for this?
 
Timmay

Timmay

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Very, very sad.

And please remember, this isn't the proper time, or reason, to voice your displeasure about Dino Rama. Show some class.
 

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