California Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) has served notice on
Disneyland over three attractions, which led to their shut-down
yesterday. In 2006, Disney agreed to make changes to the staff areas at
the park, and the OSHA notice apparently related to lack of progress on
these promises.
The citations were related a 2006 agreement to make improvements and to
inspections following recent accidents such as the man who was seriously
injured while cleaning the outside of Space Mountain. The findings
include simple failures like not having a charged fire extinguisher and
more serious ones like failure to protect employees from unsafe ladders
or lack of railings preventing a fall hazard. Serious fines of up to
$70,000 for each infraction could be levied if Disneyland does not
comply immediately with the requests (although appeal is also an
option). Total penalties for just the Space Mountain citations could
reach over $230,000.
These are the same sort of hazards that forced Disneyland to close Alice
in Wonderland until temporary scaffolding could be erected with
guardrails. The park still hasn’t made permanent fixes there.
There were a lot of violations listed in the citation, here are a few of those listed as Willful Serious:
“Disneyland Resort failed to correct the unsafe work practice of
employees of both Disneyland Resort and HSG Inc. accessing upper
exterior platform of a building (Space Mountain) to change lights, and
perform other maintenance tasks without the protection of guardrails or
personal fall protection...”
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