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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 2016
Thrill-ride accidents spark new demands for regulation
By KATHLEEN FOODY,
ERIK SCHELZIG and
CLAIRE GALOFARO
Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. —
In some parts of the U.S., the
thrill rides that hurl kids upside
down, whirl them around or
send them shooting down
slides are checked out by state
inspectors before customers
climb on. But in other places,
they are not required to get the
once-over.
The grisly death of a
10-year-old boy on a Kansas
water slide and a Ferris wheel
accident that injured three little
girls at a county fair in Tennes-
see this summer have focused
attention on what safety
experts say is an alarming truth
about amusement rides: How
closely they are regulated var-
ies greatly from state to state.
“Fifty states in the United
States of America and no two
inspect rides the same way.
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AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis
Amusement device inspector Avery Wheelock inspects
the safety pins on a children’s merry-go-round at the Mis-
sissippi State Fair in Jackson, Miss. In some parts of the
U.S., the thrill rides that hurl kids upside down, whirl them
around or send them shooting down slides are checked
out by state inspectors before customers climb on. But in
other places, they are not required to get the once-over.
That’s wrong,” said Ken Mar-
tin, an amusement park safety
consultant who has been one
of the loudest critics of the
nation’s patchwork of state
laws. “We’re not close to being
in the same book, state to state.
We’re not even on the same
page of the hymnal. We cer-
tainly aren’t singing in key.”
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Twenty-nine deaths on
amusement rides or water
slides have been reported to
the U.S. Consumer Product
Safety Commission since 2010,
spokeswoman Patty Davis said.
The amusement park indus-
try has successfully lobbied
against federal oversight for
decades, and the CPSC doesn’t
regulate rides at permanent
parks like the one in Kansas. It
oversees only traveling carni-
val rides, like the Ferris wheel
that broke in Tennessee. Even
then, federal investigators
don’t conduct routine inspec-
tions; they respond only after
accidents.
So whether a ride has to be
inspected before thrill-seekers
hop on depends on what state
it’s in.
Six states — Mississippi,
Alabama, Nevada, South
Dakota, Wyoming and Utah —
have no laws at all that require
inspections, according to Saf-
erparks, a nonproit group that
pushes to improve safety. In
most cases, the ride operators’
insurance companies require
only annual inspections, Mar-
tin said, and the insurers set the
criteria.
Kansas and Tennessee are
among the many states that
have light regulation. Kansas
mandates annual inspections
but allows a park to perform
its own, using private, licensed
inspectors. The state does ran-
dom audits of the paperwork.
Tennessee follows a sim-
ilar self-inspection protocol.
The state relies on private
inspectors hired by operators
or accepts inspections con-
ducted on traveling rides in
other states.
On the other end, New Jer-
sey is considered one of the
toughest for its cadre of state-
trained inspectors and engi-
neers who routinely inspect
rides. Pennsylvania, like-
wise, has a rigorous system
that includes more than 1,000
state-trained inspectors.
Martin and others say the
federal government should
operate something equivalent
to the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration, which
protects workers on the job.
He says the government has a
duty to set uniform standards
for rides, such as mandatory
inspections and training proto-
cols for inspectors.
But David Mandt, a
spokesman for the Interna-
tional Association of Amuse-
ment Parks and Attractions, a
trade group, said that injuries
are rare and that a federal pro-
gram of inspectors would cost
taxpayers millions.
“We believe strong local
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