Florida hosts some of the world’s largest, best-known theme parks. These Florida theme parks contain countless rides and amusements for visitors. Periodic safety inspections of these numerous thrilling and potentially dangerous theme park rides are a must to ensure your safety. Florida requires a yearly safety inspection of each ride and a report on the inspector’s findings.
But Florida’s state and local inspectors might not have the resources to inspect such a large number of theme park rides on a sufficiently frequent basis. So Florida has created a legal exemption that allows large theme parks with more than 1,000 employees to conduct their own ride safety inspections.
Under the self-inspection exemption, these large Florida theme parks must employ their own full-time safety inspectors, conduct annual safety inspections on each theme park ride, and report their findings to the state. The Florida Bureau of Fair Rides Inspections reviews the large theme parks’ ride inspection procedures to ensure that they meet the industry’s safety standards. And if a Florida theme park ride accident occurs that requires even so much as one overnight hospital stay for an injured victim, the theme park must document the ride accident in its quarterly reports to the state.
Legoland is a new Florida theme park that caters to younger children and qualifies for the Florida self-inspection exemption. Legoland spokespeople say that the new theme park plans to conduct daily safety inspections of each theme park ride to ensure patrons’ safety.
Large theme parks know the costly liability that they could face from even a single ride accident and serious injury, so they take pains to ensure safe conditions. Because of the deep concern among these large theme parks to avoid liability issues and to maintain a good reputation to attract patrons, the self-inspection exemption likely isn’t as problematic as it might initially appear.
Theme park ride accidents are actually fairly rare. But when they do occur, they tend to cause serious damage, severe injury, and sometimes fatalities. The ride failures often result in spectacular and horrific crashes or frightening close calls that find widespread coverage on the news.
If you’ve been injured in a theme park ride accident, we could help you recover the monetary compensation you need to get back on your financial feet and move forward again. The experienced theme park ride accident attorneys at Denena & Points have handled a number of high-profile ride accidents on behalf of injured clients. We are familiar with the necessary evidence to look for in a theme park ride accident case, the issues and technical complexities involved, and the steps to take to ensure your recovery. Contact us for a free consultation. If you have questions about your ride accident case, we have the answers.