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[BostonTeaParty]

This may have been what Linda meant:

Walt Disney World was not enforcing its own safety regulations when a costumed worker was killed during a February parade, a federal safety official said Wednesday.

Disney was cited for a single serious violation of the federal workplace safety rules in the incident, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration said. But an OSHA official said employees often violated the company's safety guidelines and supervisors did not enforce the rules.

"There was an issue where employees were frequently in an area where they shouldn't have been," said Les Grove, director of OSHA's Tampa office.

Javier Cruz, 38, a father of two and an eight-year employee, was run over by a float during the daily afternoon "Share a Dream Come True" parade at the Magic Kingdom on Feb. 11. Costumed as the character Pluto, Cruz was in a backstage area near Frontierland and about to enter a public area of the park when the accident occurred.

The rest of this article can be found in the Orlando Sentinel. Disney

[loobyoxlip]

That still freaks me out to read about that accident. Scary.

[LindaLu627]

Thank You, Nancy!! Good to know I'm not nuts! LOL. My mom, sister, and I all saw the same thing on Headline News "Disney Pluto Character dead from parade float". They never, repeat never, made mention this happened a while ago. My sister is a temp at a law firm and got the real head line from another news service - it was infact regarding the fine against Disney.
Thanks for helping to clear that one up- I felt like a big dork. However- not really my fault since I was only going off what little CNN felt like passing on!

Linda

[chezp]

It's always awful when they report on how accidents happened, as so many times, they could have been prevented. It sounds like this was the case here as well.