The following document shows the Consumer Product Safety Commission's figures for amusement ride fatalities from 1987 to 2004 by ride and site type: http://www.cpsc.gov/LIBRARY/Amus2005.pdf.The following are statistics taken by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission on amusement park injuries (
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· In 2002, mobile amusement rides accounting for an estimated 3000 injuries treated by the emergency rooms;
· Based on hospitals in the NEISS (National Electronic Injury Surveillance System) for the period 1997-2002, there is no statistically significant trend, positive or negative, for mobile amusement ride injuries over that same period;
· In 2002, inflatable rides, such as inflatable slides and bounces accounted for an estimated 2,500 hospital emergency room trips;
· From 1987 to 2000, for mobile and fixed-site amusement rides combined, there were an estimated 4.5 amusement-ride fatalities per year. At the time of preparing the report, CPSC had reports of 3 amusement ride fatalities in 2003, 2 in 2002 and 3 in 2001.
In an earlier report (
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(1) mechanical failures: missing safety pins, broken welds or structural components, exposed electrical wires, malfunctioning lap bars or other safety restraints, failure to shutoff, etc.
(2) operator behavior: abruptly stopping the ride, improperly assembling or maintaining the ride;
(3) consumer behavior: intentionally rocking cars, standing up, defeating safety restraints, sitting improperly, holding child above the safety restraint,
(4) other: rides that injure people while apparently functioning normally, without any unusual behavior on the part of the consumer or operator. For example, eye hemorrhage, and
(5) combination: operator suddenly stopping a ride when he heard an unusual thumping sound due to a bent rail.