The Navitat zip line adventure park in Knoxville was inspected prior to the accident by an inspector certified by ACCT.Ě post-incident inspection by a second ACCT-certified inspector found that the safety lanyard, along with the combination of protective equipment, created a safety hazard, according to Navitat spokeswoman Abby Burt. Tennessee suspended the permit of a camp where an 18-year-old man's neck was entangled in a safety harness during a fall.
In South Carolina, a 16-year-old girl fell 100 feet to her death when she became unhooked from a high ropes course for which her camp did not have the required permits. Utah doesn't have specific standards for zip lines or other challenge courses. The state's Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating. In July, a zip line worker fell 150 feet to his death in Utah after being pulled off the landing deck while helping a rider come to a safe stop. In some states, ACCT compliance is voluntary. The camp's adventure course supervisor, trained by ACCT standards, had harnessed Burney in. Investigators later found the ride had been tampered with and critical safety devices compromised.Camp Cheerio follows ACCT guidelines, said David Ozmore, the director of the YMCA of High Point, which operates the camp.Ĝamp Cheerio's three zip lines had been designed, installed and inspected by an ACCT-certified company, a policy the camp's insurance company demanded, Ozmore said. Five people were hurt when the ride started to move as people were getting off. That bill was proposed after a 2013 accident on a ride called “The Vortex” at the N.C. I mean, if I sit here and do nothing, and another child dies, I just wouldn’t be able to live with myself.”ĭavis added the provision to House Bill 39, which increases the penalties for willfully operating amusement rides illegally. But I just felt like I had to go the extra mile to make sure that these zip lines are uniformly required to get inspections and insurance, all those kinds of things. “I realize there is human error,” Davis said, “and I realize there are accidents. Davis happens to be a cousin of Sanders Burney, who lived in Wilmington, but says he would have suggested the state look into regulating zip lines after her death regardless. Ted Davis Jr., the New Hanover County Republican who added the provision to a bill already in the works. “I thought, with the death of this young lady, something needed to be done,” said Rep. Other camps also have continued to use their zip lines or to send their campers to commercial zip line operations just as they have every summer for years. The Bollmans didn’t close Carolina Ziplines Canopy Tour, which has never had a serious accident, and customers, including families and kids from area summer camps, continue to pour in Tuesdays through Sundays, slip into harnesses, helmets and safety gloves and get a taste of flight. But as a mother of 11 children and grandmother to 19, her first thought on hearing about the zip line accident that killed a 12-year-old girl at a North Carolina summer camp last month was, “That’s it. She is a member of a group visiting Carolina Ziplines Canopy Tour from Keyauwee, a camp in Sophia, N.C., run by the Carolina Peaks to Piedmont Council of the Girl Scouts.Ĭhuck co-owner with her husband of a busy canopy tour in the Stokes County treetops, Barbara Bollman believes zip lines are safe when properly built and operated. Emily Rush, 11, of Mebane, waves to friends as she rides a zipline over an old barn near Westfield, NC Wednesday, July 1, 2015.
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