SeaWorld Fights OSHA Over Fines
SeaWorld can be a magical, adventurous place to travel to and explore. Located in Florida, California and Texas, it’s one of the biggest, convenient oceanic amusement park chains. However, today SeaWorld has been cited for yet more violations within its parks and SeaWorld fights OSHA on numerous accounts. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaWorld]. The SeaWorld (http://seaworld.com/) located in San Diego, California, has recently been hit with a fine for not training their staff in safety measures regarding working with orcas. It’s not just about people picking up trash or ringing up tickets, the staff in question are the ones meant to look after and train the killer whales.
In February of 2010, a forty-year old trainer was killed by a…show more content… OSHA fights SeaWorld and SeaWorld fights OSHA right back. Recently, OSHA has fined the park with a fine of $38,000 for a repeat violation. SeaWorld was given a federal court order for operating an establishment that recognized hazards that were likely to cause serious injury and even death to the employees working there. The fine came after a follow up inspection, giving the park four years to clean up its act. It was highly recommended that anyone working with a killer whale be separated from the mammal using some sort of barrier or keeping a safe distance.
SeaWorld has been back and forth with OSHA, determining the safest way to interact with the killer whales. Since Brancheau’s death, there have been no reported injuries caused by the large animals, but OSHA remains on edge. Employees at SeaWorld are still allowed to touch and interact with the whales, but now there are safe distance measures that have to be followed. If an employee is crouched near a killer whale, he or she must remain three feet away and eighteen inches away from a pool containing a killer