Fair rides and amusment park accidents! plz help!!?

Question

i have a report on deaths/injuries from amusment parks. does ny one have ny good websites to look at. and i need to know what are some good questions to ask besides how many people have died on rides. please help=(

Answer 1

Mechanical failures associated with amusement ride related accidents, including missing safety pins, broken structural components, exposed electrical wires, broken drive chains, malfunctioning lap bars or other safety restraints, failure to shut off, improper detachment of cars and improper detachment of structural components.

Neglectful operator behavior including abruptly stopping the ride, improperly assembling and maintaining the ride, and defeating safety equipment such as brakes and automatic emergency shut off switches.

Failure of ride operators to supervise and prevent poor customer behavior associated with ride related accidents including intentionally rocking cars, standing up, defeating safety restraints, sitting improperly (sideways or with feet above the lap bar), holding a child above the safety restraint. In one instance a disembarking passenger intentionally re-started the ride by pressing the start button as the other passengers were disembarking.

Answer 2

What was the reason?

How long was the ride shut down for?

When was it last maintenance?

What could have been done to prevent this?

What is being done now to prevent this from happening again?

Answer 3

Try these sites.  The second site is the Consumer Product Safety Commission which has oversight for amusement park rides.  I don't know if that includes the county fairs, that might be a different jurisdiction, possibly OSHA.

http://www.saferparks.org/regulation/fed...

http://search.cpsc.gov/query.html?col=pu...