Bloomsburg, PA — An employee at the Bloomsburg Fair in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, was almost decapitated when his sweatshirt was caught in the machinery of the Sky Ride on Tuesday, September 16, 2014.
The Sky Ride is similar to a ski lift, in that it lifts people into the air and takes them around the fair.
The 23-yer old employee was working near a ride and got his shirt caught in an overhead wheel and a metal wire that carried one of the ride’s individual lifts cut his neck. Another employee was able to hit the emergency off switch, which kept the first employee from being decapitated.
Emergency workers took the man to the hospital. They said that he had lost a lot of blood but that he was conscious. There’s been no update on his condition and his name was not released.
A spokesperson for Reithoffer Amusements, who owns the fair equipment, said that the accident was not a result of a mechanical defect.
Scene of the Accident
Commentary
A spokesperson for the company that actually owns all these rides has come out and said that this accident did not occur as a result of mechanical failure. Well, that’s comforting. But I have say, if I were trying to put some distance between myself and an accident like this, that’s the exact same thing I’d say. Look, I wasn’t there, and I didn’t see this accident happen. I just hope that no one is blindly taking the company at their word, and that the accident is being thoroughly looked into.
— Grossman Law Offices
