Magical Midway worker dies in fall with harness
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[Ed. note: We link to several sources as the details aren't clear. One source even quotes a different age. -J]
An Orlando amusement park is back open after one of its workers died while working on a ride Saturday. A spokesman with Orange County Fire Rescue said Justin Honeycutt, 30, was an employee at Magical Midwaye. He was working on the Star Flyers ride while the ride was closed for repairs. He was about 90 feet in the air when he fell about six feet.
Read more and see video from The Orlando Sentinel, WESH/Orlando and Central Florida News.
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Dave, thank you for that link about Harnesses. I'm forwarding it on to my boss now. I think many people would be suprised by some of that information.
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That's representative of some of the material out there; there are some pretty eye opening demos on YouTube. Personally, I have wondered why industrial fall protection looks like the kind of equipment tha sport climbers abandoned years ago. My conclusion is that the industrial stuff will save your life if you fall, while the sport gear will catch you when you fall. Design decision a made accordingly: the industrial worker who falls was probably not climbing at the time.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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