Investigation Finds Hundreds of ‘Injuries and Dangerous Malfunctions’ at Six Flags Before Lethal Goliath Accident
THE SO WHAT
A pattern of hundreds of injuries and mechanical issues before a lethal accident is a governance failure, not a one‑off. Any operator running complex, safety‑critical systems should assume that incident logs will be re‑read in court and the press—tighten monitoring, escalation, and shutdown authority before an external investigation forces it.
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