Fair Ride Fatality
Fair Ride Fatality
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From the AP:
"COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Inspectors repeatedly looked over a thrill ride while it was assembled at the Ohio State Fair and signed off on it hours before it flew apart in a deadly accident that flung passengers through the air, according to authorities and records released Thursday.
Investigators on Thursday worked to find what caused the opening-day wreck that killed a high school student who had just enlisted in the Marines. Seven other people were injured, including four teenagers."
Link: http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/thrill-ride-ok-d-hours...
"COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Inspectors repeatedly looked over a thrill ride while it was assembled at the Ohio State Fair and signed off on it hours before it flew apart in a deadly accident that flung passengers through the air, according to authorities and records released Thursday.
Investigators on Thursday worked to find what caused the opening-day wreck that killed a high school student who had just enlisted in the Marines. Seven other people were injured, including four teenagers."
Link: http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/thrill-ride-ok-d-hours...





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the one drawback of an engineering background was the more I learned, I quit amusement rides.
any device that is assembled and "inspected" overnight that can take my life is not for me.
graphic warning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhH_tCzoGMQ
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Dik
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But then again the ride operators many times looked like they were on something, and not paying attention.
Maybe the inspectors need to worry about there jobs.
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I recently was sourcing an enclosure for an IP66/Explosion proof (ExP) environment. I was advised by a couple of vendors that the fewer and more convenient the fasteners are, the less chance there is they will be left out at assembly time. This is a good DFMA issue.
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JHG
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I can't fathom why people would ride such a sketchy uncomfortable ride.
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
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He was saying that he had a huge respect for the operators of mobile fairground rides who, though very often illiterate in every formal sense, nevertheless had a huge store of common sense, mechanical sympathy and deep-seated wish to stay in (what was often the family) business in the long term. He saw the fact that their rides are reassembled every week as a valuable inspection opportunity, in contrast to the much longer (if more formally scheduled) intervals for the fixed rides in amusement parks.
It might be selective blindness on my part, or selective reporting, but most of the Ride Incident stories I hear on the news seem to be about fixed rides.
Looking back to when my son was about ten, we took him and a friend to a well-known theme park in the Midlands. After he and his mate had come back all red faced and full of excitement from riding on Ob++++on on their own, I pointed out some of the obvious weld repairs on the structure of the ride we were queuing for next - and was quite surprised at how pale and quiet they went.
A.
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I do find it pretty hilarious when an operator drops a bolt or throws out some loose bungie rope just before starting a ride to freak out the riders.
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It isn't unheard of for a surgeons to leave sponges or other things in the patients or carry out the wrong operation. Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the U.S.
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Yet this incident at the fair will get more publicity than all of the medical errors combined (unless the patient is Michael Jackson)
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/corrosion-ride-caused-dea...
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Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
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http://www.kmg.nl/kmg/factory/factory_en.html
and a sales brochure of the ride
http://www.kmg.nl/kmg/factory/folder/folder_afterb...