Personal Injury Law

Two Federal Investigations Into Disney

By Eddie Farah

With Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) already conducting a probe, now the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has announced it too will examine the fatal monorail collision that took the life of a young train operator at Disney World in Orlando Sunday morning.

21-year-old Austin Wuennenberg died in what was described by witnesses as a 'head-on collision' between two trains, which occurred as the park was closing. We are so sorry for the loss of this young man who was about to graduate from Stetson University in Deland, Florida with a degree in computer science.

OSHA is looking into whether any safety rules were broken. Neither train is supposed to be able to get that close to one another, indicating either a malfunction or human error in the central dispatch area.

Disney has been responsible for the oversight over transportation on the property and so far in the history of the monorail has a clean record, but after reviewing a preliminary report, the NTSB decided to get involved. Disney has traditionally not been known for letting out too many company secrets on its properties.

OSHA gave Disney the okay to begin running the monorail system again on Monday which takes about 150,000 guests to their destination on a typical day. Let's hope that we get some answers before the end of what's expected to be a six month investigation, so Disney can make sure this never happens again. #

Full post as published by Jacksonville Personal Injury Lawyer on July 07, 2009 (boomark / email).