Disneyland Will Meet With Safety Official on Accident

Disneyland has scheduled a meeting with a state worker-safety official to discuss the citations it received for faulty training and equipment use in the Christmas Eve accident that killed a tourist and injured his wife and a park worker.

The meeting will be held Tuesday with James Brown, the head of the Anaheim office of the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health.

Brown said the entertainment company did not disclose what it wanted to discuss.

Disney spokesman Ray Gomez did not respond to a call seeking comment.

Such informal conferences are common after actions by Cal/OSHA. They give companies a chance to clarify what changes the agency requires, to check if corrective actions are appropriate or to challenge findings.

They also can be preludes to appeals of Cal/OSHA actions, a course Disneyland has sometimes taken.

Cal/OSHA last month fined Disney $12,500 in the case, finding two serious violations of state labor regulations.

One was failure to train assistant manager Christine Carpenter in the proper docking of the Columbia, a replica of an 18th century sailing vessel.

The other was failure to use equipment properly, a charge stemming from Carpenter’s tossing a line over a metal docking cleat on the ship as it approached the dock too fast.

The line ripped the cleat free and whipped it into a crowd waiting to board the Columbia.

Carpenter and the two tourists were struck.