South Padre Island water park cited by OSHA for failing to protect workers from hazardous energy sources

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Enterprize Management Inc. and Schlitterbahn Beach Resort Management LLC, both doing business as Schlitterbahn Beach Waterpark and Resort in South Padre Island, Texas, for six safety violations regarding hazardous energy sources that fatally crushed a 20-year-old lifeguard and severely injured a maintenance supervisor.

OSHA’s Corpus Christi Area Office began its investigation in March after the lifeguard and maintenance supervisor entered a wave generation machine when it was inadvertently activated and causing the two workers to be pinned between the gate and the wall of the wave machine.

via 2013 – 08/27/2013 – South Padre Island water park cited by US Department of Labor’s OSHA for failing to protect workers from hazardous energy sources.

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