Sandusky, Ohio – for some it is even more scary than the roller coaster itself: the opportunity to put and evacuate on the curse of the siren, carefully down a metal staircase to the lift hill, 160 feet above the floor.
It has been at least three times since the debut in the last month, including last week, in an episode that was recorded on video. The film recorded the methodical evacuation process, including the driver who were removed from the increased train and accompanied the stairs.
It also recorded something else: an employed, apparently not spoiled, high above the ground, centimeter from the edge of the coaching track, possibly against the federal regulations, from the federal provisions.
“He either got no training or he broke the protocol,” said Brian D. Avery, a driving safety expert in Florida who examined the video. He described the employee's lawsuit a clear violation of the standards defined by the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which requires fall protection if they work at a height of 6 feet or more above a lower level.
“It has to be sent or fired,” said Avery.
A spokesman for Osha confirmed that the agency received a complaint about the incident on July 23 and contacted Cedar Point. “The employer replied to proof of correction measures,” said the spokesman, and the matter is closed.
The spokesman for Cedar Point, Tony Clark, refused to comment on disciplinary measures.
“Security is a cornerstone of our business,” he said. “We have completed an internal review and took the relevant measures. Employee matters are considered confidential. Therefore I cannot be able to share.”
Avery, a former Ride Inspector who now teaches courses on driving safety at the University of Florida and the University of Central Florida, was less concerned about security problems that affect the evacuation of drivers.
The staircase next to the Hill lift seems to offer a reasonable way to reduce the drivers, said Avery. Depending on the trip, the industrial standards do not have to request that the drivers be used during the evacuation, he said.
“You don't look as if you have autumn access points,” he said. Nevertheless, he admitted: “It is a very annoying experience.”
The evacuation process has conducted considerable conversations online equally for drivers and non -channels, they said that walking along the stairs looks more frightening than the coasters himself. A driver who was in the recently closed Siren curse said at Reddit that the evacuation process was scary.
The coaching has experienced numerous hiccups since her debut at the end of June, including at least three unexpected interruptions, in which the 24-person trains had to be evacuated at the Hill lift.
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The signature feature of the trip is a 61-foot piece of steel line at the top of the 160 foot first hill. After the coaster train has risen the hill and moves on the Tilt route, the route rotates 90%and moves from horizontally to vertical until the drivers point directly down. The Tilt route then connects to the rest of the route and the train is published.
A complicated sentence of connections and sensors signals that the route is correctly attached before it releases the train. However, if one of these sensors is switched off, the journey is stopped. In some cases, the journey can be restarted, and in other cases, the drivers have to be removed from the trains and accompanied the hill down.
It is not unusual for complicated journeys, including many roller coasters on the Cedar Point, to experience unexpected interruptions. Social media is full of video clips of numerous trips – Gemini, Raptor, Millennium Force among them – that were evacuated in 2025.
Nevertheless, said Avery, the number of operating weeks seems to be high as the curse of the siren was stopped.
“When you open a new trip, especially an experimental, you will test the borders,” said Avery, who started his career as an intern at Cedar Point in the 1990s at Seaworld, Universal Orlando. “I hope that you will work with the manufacturer what I am sure.”
Nevertheless, he added: “You might want to take a break for a minute” to find out what the interruptions cause. “You may already know the cause and may be working on a solution.”
With Cedar Point, Clark set the stops with “slight technical delays (similar to a check-engine light)”.
“The security system was designed as designed and it is extremely important to protect all guests safely”, and we will continue to work closely with the manufacturer of the trip to offer an experience without interruption. “
In the event of a necessary evacuation, he said: “Our maintenance and company teams are trained and certified in order to secure this process safely.”
Nick Weisenberger, co-administrator for the Coaster101.com website, said Cedar Point is limited to who can drive the Sirens' curse, probably partly due to the evacuation process.
According to the requirements of the journey: “The guests must have at least three functioning extremities; a functioning arm that includes a hand (without prosthesis) with a gripping force and two functioning legs.”
Weisberger said: “I think this can only be traced back to the evacuation procedure. You must have a hand that can hold on to the handfield when the stairs are walking.”
Weisberger noticed that the journey might sit five times, with the evacuations on two or three of these stops. “It has probably now driven 10,000 cycles, so the chance that it will happen is very small and should become even smaller over time.”
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