Overhauled Disneyland Ride Reopens
Disneyland has made state-ordered adjustments to its Storybook Land Canal Boats and reopened the attraction Friday, two days after a 4-year-old severed the tip of his thumb while on the ride.
The boy, who had gripped the edge of the boat when it docked, was injured when an adult stepped on the edge of the boat while disembarking, causing it to rock and pinching the boy’s thumb between the dock and boat, said Dean Fryer, spokesman for the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health.
The boy was treated and released from a local hospital for a broken and partially severed thumb.
The state ordered the Anaheim theme park to lower the rubber bumper on the dock, replace some of the weathered rubber and enhance procedures to ensure that passengers keep their arms and hands inside the boat, Fryer said.
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