Roller coaster collision injures 20 at Paramount's Kings Island

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Cedar Fair, Intamin sued in Perilous Plunge death

The ride remains closed.

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Intamin says 'Plunge' is safe; riders say seat belts were not checked

Meanwhile, at least three passengers who were in the same boat as the victim say that ride operators did not check to make sure that the seat belts of riders on the left side of the boat had been fastened before the ride began. The victim was sitting on the left side of the boat.

Witnesses also claim that, at one point during the ride, the victim had turned around in her seat to talk to riders sitting in the row behind her. Intamin says that riders who are properly seated and secured by the ride's restraint system would not be able to turn around in their seats.

Susan Tierney, spokeswoman for Knott's Berry Farm, denies that operators were negligent.

"Our employees have assured us that they followed the procedures, and we completely stand behind them."

The fatality was the park's second this month. On September 1, a 20-year-old woman collapsed during her ride on the park's Montezuma's Revenge roller coaster and went into full cardiac arrest. She was rushed to a hospital where she died from a ruptured brain aneurysm hours later.

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Woman killed in 100-foot fall from Perilous Plunge at Knott's Berry Farm

Perilous Plunge was designed and manufactured by Intamin AG of Switzerland and opened in 2000. It is described by the park as the world's tallest and steepest water ride. It features a 121-foot-tall lift hill, followed by a 75-degree angle drop into a 115-foot-long water chute. The ride's three 24-passenger boats reach speeds of up to 50 miles per hour.

The woman fell more than 100 feet to her death, even though park officials say that her seat belt and lap bar "were in their correct and locked position" when her boat returned to the dock. It is believed that the victim fell out of her boat during its plunge down into the chute. She was treated at the scene and rushed to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The cause of death is multiple blunt force trauma.

The ride has been shut down. Officials from the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Knott's Berry Farm, and the ride's manufacturer are investigating.

The fatality is the park's second this month. On September 1, a 20-year-old woman collapsed during her ride on the park's Montezuma's Revenge roller coaster and went into full cardiac arrest. She was rushed to a hospital where she died from a ruptured brain aneurysm hours later.

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Reithoffer Shows faces lawsuit in Pennsylvania death

The boy was fatally injured last Monday when a brake stopped the ride short, throwing his body forward. He died at a hospital an hour later. On Thursday, an autopsy confirmed that the child died from multiple blunt force trauma -- a direct result of the accident.

According to the Associated Press, a man was left permanently disabled after he rode the Flitzer at the Pennsylvania Fair in Hebron, Pennsylvania in 1993. The man sued Reithoffer Shows and the Pennsylvania Fair and, last December, a jury awarded him $1.1 million.

Autopsy: boy died as a direct result of roller coaster accident

The accident happened Monday. The boy was riding a roller coaster called the Flitzer when a brake engaged and stopped the ride abruptly. The child was taken to a local hospital where he died during surgery, about an hour later.

Police are investigating the accident.

The ride is owned and operated by Reithoffer Shows.

Child dies from roller coaster injury in Pennsylvania

The accident happened on a roller coaster called the Flitzer. Officials say that a brake stopped the ride abruptly.

An autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday.

Montezuma's Revenge not to blame for woman's death, says state

"There was no evidence found at the autopsy to suggest blunt force trauma or any other problems in the mechanics of the ride," said an OSHA spokeswoman.

The park has reopened Montezuma's Revenge with permission from OSHA.

Since June, two other women have died under similar circumstances. On June 2, a 28-year-old woman died from a ruptured brain aneurysm after collapsing on the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain theme park in Valencia, California. On July 21, a 42-year-old woman complained of headaches after she rode an amusement ride at Six Flags Marine World in Vallejo, California. She was hospitalized and died from a ruptured brain aneurysm two days later. Reports from medical officials involved in those cases indicate that there is no conclusive evidence to indicate how the aneurisms burst.

In August, a non-profit, non-partisan group called The Brain Injury Association announced that it has begun an investigation into any possible link between brain injuries and amusement rides. The group will study more than 30 cases involving fatal and non-fatal brain or head injuries which are alleged to be the results of roller coasters and other amusement rides.

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Libertyland ride operator struck by Spider ride

The park says it will review its safety guidelines with its employees.

Cedar Point's Millennium Force strands passengers; ride closed

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Woman, 20, dies from ruptured brain aneurysm after roller coaster ride

The Orange County coroner's office says that the woman died from a ruptured brain aneurysm.

Since June, two other women have died under similar circumstances. On June 2, a 28-year-old woman died from a ruptured brain aneurysm after collapsing on the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain theme park in Valencia, California. On July 21, a 42-year-old woman complained of headaches after she rode an amusement ride at Six Flags Marine World in Vallejo, California. She was hospitalized and died from a ruptured brain aneurysm two days later. Reports from medical officials involved in those cases indicate that there is no conclusive evidence to indicate how the aneurisms burst.

The ride has been shut down pending an investigation.

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Power Surge ride malfunctions at Maryland State Fair

The ride features six arms which carry four cars each. The cars flip as the arms rotate about a central hydraulic arm, which lifts the entire ride to a vertical position sending riders as high as 60 feet into the air.

The ride's hydraulic pressure was eventually released, allowing the ride to return to its horizontal loading position.

State officials suspect that a computer error caused the mishap and are continuing their investigation.

Power Surge is manufactured by Zamperla of Italy.

Fair worker struck by ride

The ride, owned and operated by M&D Leisure of Motherwell, Scotland, has been shut down, pending an investigation by police and the Health and Safety Executive.

A spokesman for M&D Leisure refused to release any information on the accident or the worker.

CPSC releases annual report on amusement ride safety

No link between Monkey Business ride and woman's death, says state

Initially, an OSHA spokesman stated that the ride triggered the rupture. That statement has been retracted, and OSHA now says that there is no evidence that the woman's injury was caused by the ride.

No autopsy was performed on the victim.

In June, a 28-year-old woman died after riding the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain theme park in Valencia, California. She, too, suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm. The Los Angeles Coroner's Office initially reported that the roller coaster triggered the rupture, but later retracted that statement, saying that "the exact mechanisms of causing the aneurysm to rupture are not known."

Dr. Hunt Batjer, chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Northwestern University Medical School and chairman of the American Association of Neurosurgeons’ cerebral vascular surgery section said, "Brain hemorrhage... has been documented to occur during all activities of normal life including sleep."

This week, a non-profit, non-partisan group called The Brain Injury Association announced that it is beginning an investigation into any possible link between brain injuries and amusement rides. The group will study more than 30 cases involving fatal and non-fatal brain or head injuries which are alleged to be the results of roller coasters and other amusement rides.

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Another inflatable Titanic ride accident; 2 injured

The accident is under investigation.

The have been at least six accidents involving Titanic inflatables in the last 14 months. On August 12, a 3-year-old boy was injured and knocked unconscious after falling from a Titanic ride at a fair in Scotland. On July 28, five people were injured when a Titanic ride collapsed at a fair in Salem, Oregon. On May 21, nine children were injured after a Titanic ride collapsed at a carnival in Charlotte, North Carolina. On May 20, three children were injured after a Titanic ride collapsed at a fair in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. On June 2, 2000, five people were injured after a Titanic ride collapsed at a carnival at in Alberta, Canada.

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Braking system faulted in Superman Ride of Steel accident; ride reopens

The accident happened in the ride's loading station as one train was preparing to be dispatched and the other, which was returning to unload passengers, failed to stop. The crash injured 22 people.

After a two-week investigation, Six Flags and Intamin AG, the ride's manufacturer, have concluded that an air supply line ruptured, disabling the ride's main braking system and preventing the ride's back up system from engaging fully. They say that the second train was slowed to just under 20 miles per hour when it struck the first train.

The air supply system has been replaced with steel reinforced lines, and the ride has passed numerous tests and inspections since the new system was installed.

The ride reopened today.

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Carnival ride breaks apart in New Jersey; 14 injured

The ride, called the Twizzler, is manufactured by Wisdom Industries of Sterling, Colorado and is one of only two in operation. The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs says that an arm holding four cars broke off the ride after a weld broke. Those cars were then struck by another set of four cars which came spinning into them.

The cause of the weld failure is under investigation.

The ride is owned and operated Wizard's Festival of Fun of Laurel Springs, New Jersey.

Boy injured on Titanic inflatable

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Jumping Jack ride malfunctions; five injured

Three of the victims were treated at the scene and two others have been hospitalized with neck injuries.

The accident happened at the Presthaven Sands Funfair in Gronant, North Wales. The Health and Safety Executive and North Wales police are investigating.

The ride has been shut down.

Amusement ride explosion injures 7 at Washington fair

The ride, called the Star Dancer, is owned and operated by Butler Amusements of Fairfield, California. Its cars circle around a 100-foot-tall tower as a vertical lifting mechanism carries them to the top then lowers them back down to the ground.

The ride had been experiencing mechanical problems and workers shut it down for maintenance just 15 minutes before the explosion.

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Roller coaster accident injures 22 at Six Flags New England

Twenty-two passengers were taken to local hospitals, all with minor neck, back and facial injuries. In addition, two or three riders were knocked unconscious in the crash.

The ride has been shut down pending an investigation by state and local authorities. Park officials and representatives from the ride's manufacturer, Intamin AG of Switzerland, are also investigating.

Girl, 13, injured in fall from Hard Rock ride

The ride was shut down, but was reopened within an hour after the girl's car was removed and the ride passed a safety inspection.

The Hard Rock is a high-speed thrill ride featuring spinning cars attached to several arms which rotate around the ride's center, which lifts upward during the ride.

The Health and Safety Executive is investigating.

Chaos probe could take weeks, say investigators

Dick Chance, the president of Kansas-based Chance Rides which manufactures the Chaos ride, told the Wichita Eagle that his company has finished its own investigation into the collapse, and that he is convinced his company is not to blame for the accident.

"Our initial impression is that nothing we've found leads us to think there was a defect."

Chance has also assured all owners of Chaos rides that the products are safe.

Michigan's Adventure and its parent company, Cedar Fair, are still investigating, along with the state. State officials also said that an outside team of inspectors would likely be called in to join the probe. It has been reported that investigators are focusing on the bolts which secure the ride's platform to the center hub.

The accident happened on Monday. The ride's circular platform, which holds 18 cars, somehow disengaged from the ride's hydraulic support arm and crashed to the ground. Thirty-one people suffered minor injuries.

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Parks shut down Chaos rides throughout country

There are 52 Chaos rides operating throughout the world. Chance Rides, the manufacturer of Chaos, says it is alerting all ride owners of the possible dangers of the ride.

The Michigan Department of Consumer and Industry Services is investigating the accident. Park officials say that they expect to know the cause of the accident by Wednesday.

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Ride collapses at Michigan's Adventure; 31 injured

The ride, called Chaos, is manufactured by Chance Rides of Wichita, Kansas. It features 18 cars which border a circular platform. The cars, each of which seat two riders, flip through 360 degrees as the platform lifts, tilts and rotates. It has operated at Michigan's Adventure since 1996.

There were 33 passengers on the ride at the time it collapsed. Most of them suffered only minor injuries.

Witnesses say they heard a cracking sound, then watched the ride stop and crash to the ground. Apparently, the ride was spinning as it toppled over, and briefly rolled along the ground like a wheel until it came to rest.

Rescue teams used cranes to stabilize the ride, then worked to free the riders, who were trapped underneath locked over-the-shoulder restraints. Some riders were trapped for nearly five hours.

The accident is under investigation.

Kennywood Entertainment sued for negligence in Lake Compounce drowning death

The accident happened on July 1, 2000. The boy drowned in Lake Compounce after riding one of the park's water slides. The slide, called Lake Plunge, carries riders sitting upon inner tubes through twists and turns and then sends them into the lake. Then, riders must paddle over to a dock, which sits in water about 10-12 feet deep. The boy fell off his raft as it entered the lake. Lifeguards found him a half-hour later, curled up in a fetal position at the bottom of the lake, beyond the dock, 15 feet below the surface. He never regained consciousness, and died one week later.

"It was an accident that did not have to happen had they taken basic precautions," says the lawyer representing the mother. "The things they did and failed to do cost the child his life."

The lawsuit claims that the park should have required children to use life jackets, and that the boy should not have been allowed to ride the slide because he was not tall enough to use the ride safely.

While a spokesman for the park denies the allegations, a police investigation into the cause of the drowning concluded that the park and its employees did contribute to the child's death. Police also said that the boy's father was partly to blame for the accident.

The lawsuit was filed in Hartford Superior Court.

Since 1999, more people have died at Lake Compounce than at any other amusement park in the United States. In August 1999, an employee was killed after a ride struck him. The Connecticut Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited and fined the park for violations of safety regulations, saying that the park "did not furnish employment and a place of employment which were free from recognized hazards and that were causing or likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees." Last month, another worker was struck by a roller coaster and killed. That accident is still under investigation.

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Bungee cord snaps on Texas thrill ride; 2 injured

The ride, a reverse-bungee catapult ride called the Texas Blastoff, consists of two 120-foot-high steel towers with a bungee cord connected to each. The cords are stretched toward the ground where they are attached to a caged steel vehicle in which riders are seated. The cords are then released from the vehicle, sending the riders on a high-speed vertical launch into midair.

The riders were injured after one cord disengeged, leaving their vehicle swinging aimlessly in midair. They were then left stranded about 70 feet high until their vehicle was lowered back to the ground.

One of the riders received 13 stitches in his leg.

Similar rides have been banned in some areas for safety reasons.

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Riders trapped inside observation tower at Six Flags Elitch Gardens

The ride has been shut down.

Another inflatable ride collapses; 5 injured

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Operator error suspected in Branson USA accident; ride reopens

The state has given the park permission to reopen the ride.

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The accident happened when one of the trains failed to stop at the end of its run, continued through the station, then started up the lift hill, where the other train was being carried to the top. The two trains collided about halfway up the 55-foot-high lift hill.

In a statement issued today, the state Department of Safety said, "It appears that the operator activating the brakes on the second train may have erred, for the second train rolled through the station and caught the incline chains."

The park agrees, saying that the employee released a brake which should have been engaged.

The ride reopened Friday night, after the Department inspected it and found no mechanical problems.

Park officials say that the ride will operate with only one train until the state completes its investigation of the accident and all ride operators are recertified.

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Coroner's report exonerates Goliath

Although the coroner’s report claimed the ride was a “last straw” event, Dr. Hunt Batjer, chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Northwestern University Medical School and chairman of the American Association of Neurosurgeons’ cerebral vascular surgery section said, “Brain hemorrhage, as happened with [the victim], has been documented to occur during all activities of normal life including sleep.”

In addition, findings of the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration released June 13, 2001, stated that "the Department of Coroner has no evidence that the triggering stress [the victim] might have experienced at the amusement park was significantly different from other common stressful events that can trigger the rupture of an aneurysm. Consequently, the Department of the Coroner is not aware of any medical information or findings in the case of [the victim] indicating that the roller coaster she rode is unsafe for the general public.”

“We were confident the LA coroner’s report would confirm that a roller coaster did not cause an aneurysm,” Del Holland, vice president and general manager, Six Flags Magic Mountain, said. “As we have said before, literally millions of people have safely ridden Goliath and we expect millions more to do the same.”

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Canobie Lake roller coaster accident injures 5

Five people suffered minor injuries and were taken to a local hospital.

The ride has been shut down. The accident is under investigation.

Tilt-A-Whirl car derails

The carnival is operated by Windy City Amusements of St. Charles, Illinois.

The ride has been fixed and reopened.

Man dies after accident on carnival ride

Jazzland roller coaster malfunctions; 9 injured

Ride stalls; passengers stranded upside down

Early reports indicate that passengers were panicking, but that there were no injuries.

Roller coaster malfunctions; 8 injured

Eight people were taken to a local hospital, where they were treated and released.

The ride has been shut down.

Faulty assembly blamed for Myrtle Beach roller coaster accident

The ride opened in 1986. It is disassembled at the end of each operating season, and reassembled at the beginning of each season.

The park has been given permission to reopen the ride.

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Amusement ride laws tighten in New Jersey

The bill also gives the state's Department of Community Affairs the power to levy punitive fines against the makers of defective rides. In addition, ride owners must now carry $1 million in liability coverage per accident -- that amount is up from $100,000 in coverage per operator.

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Carnival operator faces lawsuit

The carnival operator, 21st Century Amusements, denies responsibility for the accident and says that its insurer will handle the case.

State investigators inspected the ride immediately after the accident and found nothing mechanically wrong with it. They allowed the ride to reopen immediately.

Six Flags New England faces lawsuit in 1999 Blizzard River accident

In 1999, Riverside Park was owned by Premier Parks, which eventually changed its name to Six Flags Inc. after buying the Six Flags theme park chain. The park is now known as Six Flags New England.

The action was filed in Worcestor Superior Court in Worcestor, Massachusetts.

Six Flags declined to comment on the case.

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Riders stranded atop 255-foot high roller coaster

The ride reopened later in the day.

Another inflatable ride accident; 4 injured

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Park ordered to relocate flume ride

Carnival worker crushed, killed

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating.

Woman, 41, killed in water slide accident

The accident is under investigation. The park plans to reopen the slide on Friday.

Carnival worker dies after accident

Ride tips over at Busch Gardens; 2 injured

Rhino Rally opened in May. It was shut down after the accident and will remain closed indefinitely.

Inflatable ride tips over at Michigan carnival; 2 children injured

The children's injuries included a broken wrist, cuts and bruises.

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Ride collapses at New York park; 12 injured

The ride was in operation at the time it collapsed.

Investigators will determine whether the weight of the riders was evenly balanced and whether the base of the ride was properly secured to the ground.

Roller coaster malfunctions; five injured

At least one child was taken to a medical center as a precautionary measure.

The ride, called the Little Eagle, is closed, pending an inspection by the South Carolina Labor and Licensing Department.

Roller coaster accident kills one, injures 3

The woman died from severe head and spinal injuries she sustained in the crash. Three other people were also injured, including one man who suffered a broken arm.

Health and safety officials are investigating.

The ride opened in May.

Disney settles brain hemorrhage lawsuit; injury data will remain secret

In June 1999, Disneyland settled a similar lawsuit with another woman who claimed she suffered a brain injury as a result of riding Indiana Jones. The details of that settlement were also kept secret.

Court documents show that over 300 people have reported being injured on Indiana Jones in the past three years.

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Sensor malfunction blamed for Lake Compounce Zoomerang mishap

The sensor has been replaced and the ride has been reopened.

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State allows Six Flags to reopen Goliath

On June 2, a 28-year-old woman collapsed during a ride on Goliath and later died. The cause of her death is under investigation.

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Riders trapped after Lake Compounce roller coaster malfunctions

A statement from Lake Compounce said that the train failed to stop on its return run to the station, passed through the station, then continued partially up the initial lift hill. The momentum of the train then carried it back through the station and through an inversion, after which it stalled. The train came to rest in a relatively level area of track, between two inversions.

Some of the riders were trapped for nearly 2 hours. None of the passengers was injured.

The incident comes just one day after an accident on another roller coaster at the park killed an employee. On Wednesday, a grounds worker was killed after he was struck by the Boulder Dash roller coaster while working underneath the ride. That accident is under investigation.

Zoomerang is closed pending repairs, and Boulder Dash is closed pending an investigation by police, the state fire marshal, the park, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

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Lake Compounce employee given no notice that coaster would be running, say co-workers

"They never told us to get out," said one co-worker.

"I don't know why they didn't ask us [to move]," said another co-worker. "Usually they ask us to move."

The accident happened at about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday morning on the park's Boulder Dash roller coaster, which reaches speeds of more than 60 miles per hour. The 23-year-old employee was struck by one of the ride's trains as he was trimming weeds underneath the wooden structure of the ride. He was wearing plugs in his ears to protect them from the noise of the loud weed-cutting equipment he was using at the time, and was unable to hear the oncoming train rolling toward him. Authorities pronounced the man dead at the scene.

One of the victim's co-workers also claimed that neither he nor the victim was given safety training by Lake Compounce before they began working as members of the park's grounds crew a month ago.

"They just told me how to deal with customers, in case a customer gets mad," said the man to a reporter from Fox's WTIC-TV of Hartford.

Richard Bisi, spokesman for Lake Compounce, said that all employees are given safety training before they begin work at the park.

Lake Compounce opened as usual Wednesday morning, a half-hour after the accident.

Boulder Dash is closed pending an investigation by police, the state fire marshal's office, the park, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

"We're ruling nothing out," said a state police spokesman.

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Roller coaster accident kills Lake Compounce worker; third death at park in less than 2 years

The Southington, Connecticut police department, the state fire marshal's office, and Lake Compounce are investigating the accident.

The fatality is the park's third in less than two years.

On July 1, 2000, a 6-year-old boy fell off his inner tube while riding the park's Lake Plunge water slide. Lifeguards found him a half-hour later, curled up in a fetal position at the bottom of the lake, beyond the dock, 15 feet below the surface of the water. He never regained consciousness, and died one week later. A police investigation later concluded that the park, its employees, and the boy's parent all shared the blame for the child's death.

On August 21, 1999, a 16-year-old park employee died from injuries he suffered from an accident on the park's Tornado ride a day earlier. He was struck by the ride and dragged underneath it. The incident led the state's Occupational Safety and Health and Administration (OSHA) to cite and fine Lake Compounce, saying that the park failed to use "feasible and acceptable methods" to prevent employees from entering the area of ride rotation. The citation also said that Lake Compounce "did not furnish employment and a place of employment which were free from recognized hazards and that were causing or likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees."

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Eight riders treated for inhaling chlorine fumes at Paramount's Carowinds

The riders were exposed to the fumes in a tunnel in which curtains drip water onto passengers. Park officials believe that the curtains may have held the chlorine fumes in the tunnel.

The curtains have been removed from the attraction.

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Fire destroys bumper car ride at Maine amusement park; no injuries

Several adjacent rides were closed as firefighters worked to put the fire out and no one was injured.

Another raft capsizes on Visionland's Wild River Gorge ride

On July 29, 1999, a raft flipped over on the same ride because it bumped into another raft. It was determined that ride operators were allowing boats to travel too close together.

The accident marks the fifth time in a little more than two years that a raft has capsized on a river rapids ride in the United States. At least 23 people have been injured in these accidents, including one person who was killed.

Wild River Gorge has been shut down pending an investigation.

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Coroner's office launches probe into woman's death; Goliath closed

A park spokesman has called the death "a very unfortunate occurrence."

Initially, the state gave the park permission to continue operation of the ride, but after the coroner's report was released, the park was ordered to shut the ride down. The California Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating.

6/4 STATEMENT FROM THE LOS ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF CORONER:
On June 3, 2001, the Department of Coroner performed an examination on Ms. Pearl Santos who was reportedly found unresponsive after riding an attraction at a local amusement park on June 2, 2001. The Senior Deputy Medical Examiner has ordered additional testing and studies. The additional testing includes a toxicological screen and neuropathological studies. An earlier release of information regarding the cause of death was premature. Information that the attraction was directly responsible for the death was also premature. The final cause, mode, and manner of death have not been finalized. Until all testing and studies have been completed, the cause of death is DEFERRED. The autopsy report will not be available for release until the case is closed. It is estimated that the case will close in 4 to 6 weeks once all test results have been received.

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Woman, 28, dies after ride on Goliath at Six Flags Magic Mountain

A preliminary investigation indicates that the woman was in good health, had no history of health problems, and that the ride was operating normally.

Goliath is a 255-foot-high steel roller coaster which opened last year. The 3-minute ride reaches speeds of up to 85 miles per hour.

Six Flags closed the ride in response to the incident, but reopened it hours later with permission from the state of California.

Authorities have scheduled an autopsy to determine the cause of death.

Six Flags Fiesta Texas roller coaster malfunctions; 2 injured

The passengers suffered only minor injuries.

The ride, a looping roller coaster named Boomerang Coast to Coaster, has been shut down. Fiesta Texas inspectors and officials from the ride's manufacturer are investigating.

North Carolina slide was uninspected and overloaded, says state

Nine children were injured when the ride collapsed, none seriously.

In an interview with the Charlotte Observer, the owner of Master Rental says that he was unaware that his equipment was regulated by the state of North Carolina. He also refused to disclose how long his company has been operating in Asheville.

"We're complying with authorities. I can't say anything else."

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Six Flags Worlds of Adventure closes ride

Hook's Lagoon is described as a "water playground area" of the Six Flags Hurricane Harbor water park, which features water slides, lagoons, waterfalls, and other similar attractions. In August, an 11-year-old girl nearly drowned in Hook's Lagoon when she was sucked into an underwater drainage pipe which was covered by a broken grate. She was underwater for nearly four minutes before being rescued.

Investigators from the Ohio Department of Agriculture reported that the pumps were draining water at twice the rate specified by the ride's designer and manufacturer. The park has filed a lawsuit against the state, disputing its findings, but says that it will keep the section of the ride closed until their appeal of the state's findings is resolved in court.

Industry helps defeat carnival ride safety bill

The Texas Senate had already approved the bill.

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Another inflatable ride collapses; 9 children injured

The ride, called the Titanic, is owned by Master Rental of Asheville, North Carolina.

The North Carolina Department of Labor is investigating the accident.

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Another inflatable ride collapses; 3 children injured

The Nova Scotia Department of Labor is investigating.

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Accident at Six Flags Marine World injures woman

The ride remains closed while officials from the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Six Flags, and Chance Rides, the manufacturer of the ride, investigate.

Woman, 45, killed in fall from Ferris wheel

Roller coaster malfunctions; 2 injured

Police say that a steel axle on one of the cars broke toward the end of the ride, causing the wheels of the car to derail. The riders were injured when the car stopped abruptly, throwing them forward into a safety device. They were left dangling about 25 feet off the ground for some time, until they were rescued by a crane.

The riders suffered serious injuries including hipbone fractures, and are not expected to recover for six months.

The accident is under investigation.

Roller coaster fire blamed on electrical wiring

The park remains closed.

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Knott's Berry Farm ordered to improve safety procedures

OSHA has ordered the park to implement a new system for employees to use to signal to each other in a "specific, consistent, and unambiguous" way, indicating that there are no people or obstacles in the path of the train. Park officials say that such a system has already been implemented.

The park was not cited or fined.

Roller coaster blaze injures 63

In their attempt to flee the area, many of Phantasialand's 20,000 visitors dodged burning sections of the mostly wooden structure, which blew across the park, landing up to 300 feet away.

"We were running. We didn't know if huge burning walls would fall on us. It was mass panic," said one eyewitness, the Associated Press reports.

Many people jumped fences to escape the park, which was later completely evacuated, and one section of park fencing had even been torn down.

"We just barely avoided a catastrophe," said Cologne, Germany police director Winrich Granitzka.

The cause of the fire is yet to be determined, but one park spokesman says that because the ride's emergency brakes activated, there is reason to believe that a cable fire in one of the ride's cars may have triggered the blaze. Experts say that no signs of arson have been found.

The ride, manufactured by Schwarzkopf of Germany, is also known as the Bobsleigh. It was built in 1975.

In 1996, another roller coaster fire at Phantasialand injured 5 people.

The park, one of Europe's largest, will remain closed until the weekend of May 12 and 13, when it will reopen with a reduced ticket price.