Schlitterbahn
cmonforton | August 9, 2016When I heard the news about the 10 year old who died on Sunday at the Schlitterbahn water park in Kansas City, I couldn't help but remember Nico Benavides, 20.
Benavides died in March 2013 while a lifeguard at Schlitterbahn's park on San Padre Island, TX. Benavides and a co-worker were assigned to do maintenance on the park's wave pool. They were struck and pinned underneath a mechanical door. Benavides family kept him on life support for several days until his organs could be donated.
OSHA investigators found that the company did not have an effective lock-out/tag-out program. It is a basic…
cmonforton | November 7, 2013[Update below (April 10, 2015)]
"They sure kept that quiet."
My neighbors had that reaction when I told them about the 20-year old worker who was killed on-the-job at one of the Schlitterbahn water parks. This particular amusement-park company has four large water resorts in Texas and Kansas. My neighbors frequent the one in New Braunfels, TX, along with 900,000 other annual visitors, during central Texas' hot spring and summer months. I knew they'd want to know this story.
In March 2013, Nicolas "Nico" Benavides, 20, had been hired as a lifeguard, and had only been working a few weeks at the…