Six Flags Over Georgia employee killed by passing coaster train in restricted area

OSHA completed their investigation at noon today and the ride should reopen later this afternoon.

A guy was killed here in the UK last Summer, the ride failed to complete the loop and was being pushed off by a maintenance engineer.

The train went the wrong way and there was a shower of blood!

Typical Pinfari!

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I am so sorry for this guy and his family, but honestly this has got to be 100% his own fault. I work at SFOG and I am an employee on SUF, and I know what ride employees have to do to and what the safety procedures are. And BTW, the man was not a ride operator or mechanic, he was in the park services department, you know, the people who walk around the park and sweep and empty trash cans. So I can find no reason why he would have been under the track. If he was asked to retrieve a lost article, he simply should have said, I am not permitted to enter that area. You have to tell the operator that you lost an article and come back at the end of the night when they do the track walk. That's all. Also if it was a ride attendant who was killed, during training we have to go through extensive testing on safety procedures and we have to sign a sheet that we understand all the safety procedures and will abide by them. If you break a rule, it's your own fault and the park cannot be held responsible. I know for a fact the the park will be very strict on hand signals, crossing procedures, and all safety procedures from now on, even though they are very strict already, at least over at SUF. So basically, the man had no reason to be walking under the track, and he should've used just a little common sense to move out of the path of the speeding, roaring, loaded, extremely visible, heavy, highly technical Batman train.

I have to agree. How do you miss this coaster? Even if it were new, it could definatly be heard. He could have simply moved out of the way.

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SF should not be held responsible for this, it was his own actions that caused his death.

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This is like walking in the midlle of the street and standing there when you see a car you move away, not that difficult, and what was he doing back there anyway

This tragic accident remindes me of the accident on Top Gun at PGA in 1993.

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What can more training can you do if you have ignorant people working for you??? All the training in the world cant stop people from doing dumb things!! The sad thing is with all the money grubbing lawyers around and stupid juries giving out outrageous awards his family will get a nice sum of money due to the stupdity of the deceased!

I will be visiting SFoG in just 2 weeks. I'm sad that my visit will come on the heels of a tradgedy like this.

I will ride Batman of course, but with consternation. How's it going to feel when I'm on Bats and I happen to look down at the ground and think "that's where that man was killed"?

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I feel sorry for the guy and his family, and the guest as well...

StealthfM5m3 said: "This tragic accident remindes me of the accident on Top Gun at PGA in 1993." This accident seemed eerily similar when I first heard of it....what part of inverted coasters makes people think they're safe under the tracks, I'll never know....LOCK-OUT areas are called that for a very good reason....still, a real shame.

...did see a *small* kid jump on the tracks of Cheetah today...train was stopped in the station, but at the push of a button it could have been MUCH worse....

But the guy who was hit on Top Gun was a guest. This guy actually worked there

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Kinda off the topic but this refers to workers in the infields of rides while rides are in operation. This deals with mechanics doing structure walks (mainly wooden coasters) to check for gapping boards in the structure which can only be seen when the coaster goes over that section of track. Like I said though this doesn't explain why the guy when in Batman's infield it was just to give insight as to y someone would be in the infield during operation.

Gwazi God - there are different procedures for different types of rides. For example, on Magnum we were able to go into our "low zones" with a hard hat to pick up garbage or missing articles. However, I can assure you that no such thing happens on Raptor. I think this is one of those unfortunate incidents that nomatter what the rules are, what training has been implemented, etc, someone just thought they could get away with it one time. And they didn't.

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If you've ever seen Batman the Ride Or Great White running, and you think "Gee, I think I'll hope over a fence to get a closer look at the ride, YOU ARE A MORON! Six Flags has some of the best fencing and warning signs around their rides. The training this year, especially at the Texas parks and America, would leave you to believe that there should be no question in anyones mind that you don't ever enter a restricted area while the ride is motion.
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*** This post was edited by Intamin Fan on 5/27/2002. *** *** This post was edited by Intamin Fan on 5/28/2002. ***

Not sure I get your hostility. It wasn't a CoasterBuzz member (that we know of) that went into the restricted area of the ride.

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Batman was opened today at 2:30pm and the girl who's foot hit the man was also released from the hospital.

Intamin Fan, where the hell do you get the "some of the dumbest people in the world patronize this site" statement based on a Six Flags EMPLOYEE's death? CoasterBuzz had nothing to do with that, and NO poster has sat there saying "Well clearly the ride is defective if a guy was killed".

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My greatest sympathy goes out to the girl whose foot hit the guy. She will possibly be bothered by this for the rest of her life.

While I've never been to SFOG, my experience watching operations at other SF parks is that lockout/tagout procedures are followed well. Restricted areas are fenced and posted. Even Nitro running out into the woods has a fence and warning signs around each area where it dips close enough to the ground for there to be a hazard. Funny how you don't notice the fences when you are riding.

I saw an object fall from an empty Batwing train during testing on opening day for the ride. The ride was locked out before someone went out to recover what turned out to be a bottle of cleaning solution that had been left on the train.

As a matter of principle, OSHA holds the employer responsible whenever a fatality occurs. Basically, OSHA's position is that you have create an appropriate procedure, teach the procedure to your employees, and force them to follow it. If you have someone who will not follow the rules you are responsible to do whatever it takes to get him to do so or fire him. They pretty much have to do it that way to enforce the law. However, the severity of the penalties imposed by OSHA do vary depending on how much effort the employer has shown to enforce safety rules. *** This post was edited by Jim Fisher on 5/28/2002. ***

OSHA fined Lake Compounce for a similar death last year...

http://www.coasterbuzz.com/news/news.asp?NewsID=3345

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