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Disneyland Accidents

by Steve
Wednesday, November 28, 2007

An anonymous OCThen reader posted a comment on an old article regarding an accident happening at Disneyland. His comment is about an incident he was involved in on the Jungle Cruise...
When I worked on the Jungle Cruise, I was working one evening in the front loader dock position. Two women and a litle girl approached as the boat was filling up. I was talking to the Mom, asking if they wanted to wait for another boat as this one was nearly full.

Before any of us knew it, the litle girl had stepped off the dock and fell between the boat and the dock. The water there is about 12 feet deep, and she was completely submerged.

I fell on my knees in the boat opening and fished for the girl in the water. I found her and pulled her out. It was a couple of seconds at best, but felt like minutes. Her eyes were like saucers, and she started crying almost immediately. All I could do was hold her close, then handed her off to her Mom.

There was no threat of a lawsuit. The Mom said she should have been watching her. I was not punished by Disney, though I did have to go back to wardrobe to change into dry clothes.

It did earn me the nickname "Lipton".
I wanted to ask our readers if they can submit their memories of other Disneyland accidents. I'm not looking for deaths, or major injuries, since those have all been well covered in the media. I'm looking for the stuff that didn't get reported in the papers, which involved little to no injuries.

Maybe someone fell into the water at Pirates of the Caribbean, or someone who actually got sick in the middle of watching Circle Vision, or some kid who got his head stuck between the bars of a fence and had to be greased up to pull it back out. I dunno.

I'm sure past and present Disneyland employees have lots to share.

I haven't witnessed any accidents, other than the countless times I slammed into the back of my buddies on the Autopia Cars. Though there was that time I nearly ran over a parking attendant because I had the sun shining in my face.

If you have something, click on "Post a Comment", and let's get this thread going.

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6 Comments:

  • I literally just walked in the door from Disneyland. While I was there, I went on "It's a small world." I was telling my friends that I once saw a little boy, of about 8 or 9, fall while getting off one of the boats.
    He hit the deck with his lip pretty bad. The part that I remember most was that they had medics there in minutes. They were upon him and nursing him before he could even realize what had happened.
    That Disneyland. They really have everything thought-out. Even accidents.

    By Blogger Suzanne Broughton, at November 28, 2007 5:06 PM  

  • In the early 60's, one of our model plans came off it's line while in flight, went over the fence, and his a man in a wheel chair in the wrist. He promised not to sue or create a problem over it if he could have the plane. We agreed. Retail price for the plane and accessories was about $20.00. People were nice back then.

    By Blogger CoxPilot, at November 28, 2007 6:20 PM  

  • There used to be a website that documented all of the accidents at disneyland. It was a bit sensationalist dubbit it the Deadlinest Place on Earth and The Tragic Kingdon. It is now nowhere to be found, but I did come across this with a simple google search: http://delatore.com/kfiles/archives/Deathney.html

    By Blogger Rob, at December 06, 2007 4:23 PM  

  • When I was 8 years old, my mom took me on the Dumbo ride. Back then, Dumbo's ears extended out much farther than those of the newly refurbished Dumbo we all know today. When the ride ended, a stream of people were immediately let in before the other riders had a chance to exit and my mother and I hurried out to make way for someone else. We had barely stepped onto the loading/unloading platform when the ride operator started the ride. Several people were still standing on the platform and they all must have been whisked out of harms way the way I was, because I don't remember anyone actually being injured. I just remember seeing Dumbo's huge gray ear whoosh past my head just as my mother pulled me to safety. I go to Disneyland all the time and that's the closest I or anyone in my family has ever come to peril at The Magic Kingdom.
    That memory jostled another one that happened the same day. I was waiting in line for Autotopia when I got a terrible nosebleed. I completely wiped out the front of my tee-shirt and after the nurses at the First Aid center helped me stop it, one of them produced a brand new Minnie Mouse tee-shirt for me so that I wouldn't have to wear the bloody one. I thought that was a really nice gesture and I've always remembered how kind they were.

    By Anonymous elicia1971, at December 29, 2007 11:25 PM  

  • I remember going with a Day Camp that I worked at back in 1982. I was a counselor to several children and we were on Tom Sawyer's Island. One of the boys was messing around along the water edge fell into the water, I tried to grab him and ended up stepping into the water, probably about up to my knees. Spent the next couple hours with wet jeans.

    By Blogger DD Swenson, at March 10, 2008 6:42 PM  

  • Last year, or possibly the year before, my family was on dumbo at disneyland in the mid afternoon. My little sister was riding with my mom and she was only about 3 at the time and was scared so the elephant was as low as you can fly it and a female employee was walking around and was over the line on the ground that marks where it is safe to be during the ride and my mom's elephant knocked her out. By the time the ride was stopped we were on the other side and were left up in the air for at least half an hour while the employee was tended to. She eventually was able to walk away with a paramedic on each side of her (but clearly walking fine) but the ride was closed for most of the rest of the day and we were all given those fastpass for any ride tickets. My mom never wants to go on Dumbo since then.

    By Blogger skybluefusion, at May 15, 2008 7:36 AM  

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