IOA Worker Hurt on Dueling Dragons

[Guest]

Worker was Hurt at IOA on Dueling Dragons.

 

http://www.wesh.com/entertainment/19914532/detail.html

[thrillrideseeker]

It is unknown if the worker was doing maintenance or repair at the time of the injury.... The 911 caller said the worker was hit by one of the ride's drive vehicles.

Ok... If he was in a low zone, which I am assuming he was he should have know to put a lock out on the ride. If he would have put a lockout on then no one would have been able to start the ride, thus he would not have been injured. *Sighs*

~Matthew

[CoasterEricHP]

I used to work at Dragons and I dont understand how this happened.

 

People in the control booth SHOULD have gotten over the ride track speakers and warned more than once that trains were going to be moving.. plus whoever was out there should have locked out the ride just like we would do anytime we had to enter the ride track.

 

Also.. you can hear the lift.. train.. and everything else really easily in the morning.

 

I hope whoever it was recovers but I think people (maybe the engineers AND control booth op's) were both taking short cuts..

[PKI Jizzman]

It is unknown if the worker was doing maintenance or repair at the time of the injury.... The 911 caller said the worker was hit by one of the ride's drive vehicles.

Ok... If he was in a low zone, which I am assuming he was he should have know to put a lock out on the ride. If he would have put a lockout on then no one would have been able to start the ride, thus he would not have been injured. *Sighs*

~Matthew

 

Was about to say the same thing! It should have been in lock out mode.

[sam06pr]

I am not going to bother

[Electerik]

If he was in a low zone, which I am assuming he was he should have know to put a lock out on the ride.

 

IOA is not Cedar Point. Which is not to say they don't have a system. But no one carries around padlocks.

 

Not a lot of detail in that article. It's not even clear what department the "worker" was part of.

[OldJJman]

The above article, along with the blurb on rideaccidents.com, give no real details, and if the worker had been killed, we would have definitely heard about it by now.

 

Granted, this is just speculation on my part, but:

 

Could it have also just been a train in the station moving from unload to load? Or perhaps a misstep while using the transfer track??

 

I say this only because if the worker had been out on the course, they (more than likely) would have been killed. Or at least seriously injured.

 

It was reported that the ride did open that day, fueling my speculation.

 

 

JJ

[hyyyper]

^It could be possible that only his feet or hand were hit, which would not result in a fatality.

[ECZenith]

Tag out procedures exist on most tracked (dispatch-type) attractions, at least on the professionally run ones... Nobody carries around a padlock, there's usually a cabinet or rack on the wall with a bunch of hooks, and hanging on the hooks will be padlocks with keys on little elastic "bracelets". In the case of the rides I run, you put your ID in the sleeve corresponding with the key you are taking, and lock your padlock on the ride startup controls so it's impossible to run the ride while someone is tagged out on the ride path.

 

I have heard at some other theme parks that maintenance crews sometimes get lazy and skip tagging out, the end result is sometimes a scenario like this. Not saying that's exactly what happened but tag out procedures should alway sbe used no matter what ride/what time etc. These scenarios could easily be avoided.

[Electerik]

^ With all due respect, Sean, different parks do things different ways. No need to suggest laziness or unprofessionalism--especially when we know so little about the exact circumstances.

 

I don't want to get into detail (because safety procedures could conceivably be considered propriety), but I will say that I have a lot of respect for the way Universal does things. Which really doesn't mean anything--but I have worked at IOA, Cedar Point, and even your little park.

[Rastuso]

In no way, shape, or form should IOA (or any park) be using Tag Out for safely working under an inverted coaster. If they aren't using Lock Out, OSHA should come down on their asses HARD. Tag Out provides no real protection, and when you are talking about a coaster that could easily kill someone, it simply doesn't pass muster.

 

Anyone ever caught under a coaster that isn't LOCKED out should be fired on the spot.

 

-RO