Disney World Worker Injured by Runaway ‘Indiana Jones’ Boulder

Disney’s theme parks might want us to consider they’re all of the happiest places on earth, however they’re, on the finish of the day, places of work for the individuals who make that magic occur. And that signifies that, similar to every other office, accidents can occur… they only occur to return with some very absurd theming.

That was the case earlier this week throughout a efficiency of the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular at Disney World’s Hollywood Studios in Orlando, Florida, when a big faux boulder meant to be recreating the long-lasting chase sequence from Raiders of the Misplaced Ark broke freed from its observe and veered in direction of the watching viewers. Fortunately for them, a close-by Disney solid member stepped within the boulder’s means, taking the hit to cease its momentum from carrying it additional into the group.

It’s maybe about as thematically acceptable a office damage as you can presumably get at a Disney park, however that doesn’t imply it wasn’t fairly extreme: the boulder was product of rubber, not rock, but it surely nonetheless weighed in at round 400 kilos, which is a nasty chunk of stuff to get hit with regardless. Footage of the accident, which went viral on social media over the New 12 months’s break, reveals the Disney staffer falling to the bottom after being hit, and different staff speeding to take care of them after they didn’t stand up.

Fortunately, in line with an announcement from Disney, the worker was not severely injured and is recovering. “We’re centered on supporting our solid member, who’s recovering,” Disney stated in an announcement supplied to press (through the BBC), earlier than including that the boulder sequence of the Epic Stunt Spectacular present will probably be modified going ahead to hopefully keep away from the possibilities of a runaway boulder any time quickly. “Security is on the coronary heart of what we do, and that component of the present will probably be modified as our security workforce completes a overview of what occurred.”

Within the meantime, no one loot any valuable idols that simply occur to be positioned on seemingly regular plinths with out making certain they’ve gone via the mandatory well being and security coaching first. Or simply go away it to any native archaeology professors who know their stuff.

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