State officials say they can't enter park to investigate Superman accident
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A report in The Boston Globe says that local officials are frustrated that they can't enter Six Flags New England to investigate the train collision that injured dozens on Superman.
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[Ed. note: The article incorrectly states that state inspectors are barred by federal law from performing inspections. Clearly if this was the case, inspectors in dozens of other states couldn't do it either. While Rep. Ed Markey is again trying to make a federal case of this, it sounds like a problem for their state legislature, not the feds. -J]
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What you are saying is not correct. The loophole prevents the CPSC from investigating, not the states. You're misinformed. If what you are saying was correct then CalOSHA wouldn't have been involved in the Goliath aneurysm case.
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Jeff: here's a quote from the article:
''Right now state officials are not allowed to enter any amusement park,'' said the state commissioner of public safety, Joseph S. Lalli, whose inspectors check all rides at traveling carnivals but can't set foot in stationary amusement parks because of a jurisdictional exemption passed by Congress in 1981. As a result, his office can't investigate Monday's crash on the Superman ride at Six Flags in Agawam, which sent nearly two dozen riders to four area hospitals.
I'm just going by what this article says. Some one's wrong somewhere, or else they are misinterpreting the law.
''Right now state officials are not allowed to enter any amusement park,'' said the state commissioner of public safety, Joseph S. Lalli, whose inspectors check all rides at traveling carnivals but can't set foot in stationary amusement parks because of a jurisdictional exemption passed by Congress in 1981. As a result, his office can't investigate Monday's crash on the Superman ride at Six Flags in Agawam, which sent nearly two dozen riders to four area hospitals.
I'm just going by what this article says. Some one's wrong somewhere, or else they are misinterpreting the law.
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