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OSHA fines Disney in worker's death during parade.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2004

By Barry Flynn |, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 12--Walt Disney World was not enforcing its own safety regulations when a costumed worker was killed during a February parade, a federal safety official said Wednesday.

Disney was cited for a single serious violation of the federal workplace safety rules in the incident, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration said. But an OSHA official said employees often violated the company's safety guidelines and supervisors did not enforce the rules.

"There was an issue where employees were frequently in an area where they shouldn't have been," said Les Grove, director of OSHA's Tampa office.

Javier Cruz, 38, a father of two and an eight-year...

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