A fairground operator has been fined £10,000 after an 11-year-old girl suffered a serious head wound when she was thrown from a ride at a West Midlands park.
The lap bar on the ride failed, and the girl had not been able to put on a lap belt as a secondary measure. As a result of being thrown from the moving ride she suffered a head wound which required ten stitches, as well as multiple cuts and bruises.
The HSE investigation into the incident discovered that the lap belts in the ride cars had been poorly maintained and most were in such a poor state of repair that they were unusable.
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