Somebody’s gettin’ sued.
This why I avoid amusment park rides, fair rides, etc. Nowadays, people don’t do their jobs and maintain and ispect these things
I live here in Columbus and it was bad. I’ll correct the report though. NO Marine recruit will be at a fair EVER. He was a hopeful who enlisted and was the DEP (delayed entry program)
I saw on the news that the ride had been inspected the same day it failed.
Sounds like the inspector was either incompetent or crooked.
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This is the kind of report that makes lawyers salivate.
1. BAD design. Yield before fracture? Margins of Safety? DESIGN LIFE???? Especially if corrosion will be an issue.
2. Lousy inspection process
Welcome to America of Today.
Cheap, Cheap, Cheap, and......Made to Break!
Oh, and let’s save a dollar by skipping the inspection.
Public can go fish. There are no more standards!
Cars, Dishwashers, Homes, .... even pencil erasers.....all -— made to break. Got to keep that buy, buy , buy stream alive. Sad.
Isn’t ‘checking for corrosion’ part of the annual inspection?
Marginal wall thickness of the square structural tube combined with moisture and internal corrosion over the years. It happens to trailers and vehicles all the time. Toyota had a recall on their small pickup trucks for years due to frame rot and inadequate rustproofing. Some had a buy-back allowance. On others, they actually replaced the frame! My son had one that had a hole in the frame that you could actually put your fist through, and the frame member wasn’t very big.
This could have major implications on future inspection of fair rides, the making of newer fair rides and just about anything manufactured with hollow beams etc. I bet every time it rain this support beam got water inside it that would speed up the erosion process on bare metal that no body thought about getting painted, or it getting water inside the beam. This accident will probably change a lot of processes in the making of fair rides and upkeep of them, and add new things to inspect if they can even inspect the inside of a beam.
To be fair, the proper inspection of this metal would take very expensive equipment that is far beyond eyeballing, to say the least. I never go on the local,traveling fair type rides and I am still suspect of the big established parks.
Excessive corrosion, eh? I would have guessed metal fatigue....that failure mechanism scares me the worst because there is no indication from an inspection how many more stress cycles can be accommodated before a failure will occur unless somebody just happens to catch it right at the very unset of a fatigue crack starting. This is why I laugh at the idea that inspections can be suggested as the be all and end all requirements for amusement park rides or anything......I’m not suggesting that inspections shouldn’t be done because there are other things that inspections can turn up. However, once metal has been subjected to X number of stress cycles, it needs to be replaced BEFORE a crack starts.....because once the crack starts, catastrophic failure is imminent and can happen very quickly.
I thought that is the kind of thing inspections are supposed to reveal. I don’t ride carnival rides, have not been on one since I was about 16, my friends and I would go to the fairs and the ride operators would try to flirt with us. After talking to any of them for 5 minutes you would not want to ride the rides. Not the brightest doesn’t begin to cover them.