A Washington state woman is lobbying to change a designed to improve the safety of amusement rides in that state.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/39889487.html
The interesting thing about this particular incident involves machine guarding or guarding of moving parts of a machine.
Machine guarding has been around as an OSHA regulation for many years. We see it all the time at and at home. The powers tools we have at home or the drill press or grinding device at work. Federal Safety Regulators realized years ago that moving parts of machinery can and will cause damage, amputation, death and even scalping.
Amusement rides are notoriously know for being self regulated and having a patchwork of state and local regulation and very little federal oversight. This is not the first scalping incident on either a go-kart of amusement ride. I'm sure it will not be the last.
