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A worker at Walt Disney World is "recovering" after being injured by a 400-lb (180kg) runaway fake boulder prop in an incident that was caught on video, the Florida theme park confirmed.

The incident took place at the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular! during a live recreation of a famous scene from the film.

Video shows the boulder rolling towards the audience as a staff member jumps into its path, preventing it from reaching the crowd.

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[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I bet they deny him sick leave.

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Nah. I'm a former Cast Member and I've spent some time injured on Disney's dime in a much lower stakes version of this. If they're able to sit upright they'll be given seated light duty tasks like putting hangers on clothing and gluing popsicle sticks on Olaf butts to make fans for the guests. It's honestly the best workers comp experience I've ever had, they've got on property doctors who are actually pretty good and if you get injured after their office closes they've got a deal with an off property urgent care who sucked but I had zero paperwork to deal with. Also if I didn't have a five star workers comp experience, the union would have had something to say about it - Cast Members are unionised.

Edit: not to say Disney doesn't suck, I absolutely have horror stories and everyone who has worked for them does, but their workers comp process was actually pretty great.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

If they're able to sit upright they'll be given seated light duty tasks like putting hangers on clothing and gluing popsicle sticks on Olaf butts to make fans for the guests. It's honestly the best workers comp experience I've ever had,

I... Wha... Are you for real? It's not "worker's comp" if you still literally have to work. Holy shit, how did we get to the point where people think this is a good way for a corporation to treat employees?

This is literally "denying sick leave" like the comment you replied to said.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

If you sprain your ankle, why wouldn't you be able to work? Obviously the dude in the video will get time off, but if you have a foot injury, why would desk duty not be okay?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

It's Disney, so it will probably go like this:

"You're okay, right? No need to file a workers comp claim, right? That would raise your insurance rates, you know, and you don't want that. Just walk it off, and don't talk about, and it will feel better fast. So, since this "didn't happen," I expect you to be on time for your next shift tomorrow. You can take it easy today though, maybe just stand at the exit and say Goodbye to guests, okay? I mean it, I don't want to see a workers comp claim, got it?"