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Calypso Water Park was more interested in their bottom line than public safety when they operated unsafe water slides and should be fined $850,000 for safety violations, a prosecutor argued Friday.
Prosecutor Tom Ayres argued that “greed and profit” led the water park east of Ottawa to put the popular Steamer slide back in service immediately after a woman suffered a broken vertebra in July 2011.
Calypso continued running the ride for a month before a member of the public complained and an investigation launched, Ayres said.
Another accident on the Bobsleigh ride in 2012 that left a man unconscious was “easily and entirely preventable.”
“The circumstances in this case cry out for a substantial penalty,” said Ayres. Prosecutors would be “remiss in our duty to public safety if we didn’t seek a substantial penalty.”
Calypso was found guilty in April of six safety violations under Ontario’s Technical Standards and Safety Act. The violations included having one water slide that posed a danger to its riders and another that had undertrained staff.
The water park was also cited for failures to report serious injuries to the authorities and shut down a ride promptly after a series of accidents that left riders hurt.
Those injuries included a woman who suffered a broken vertebra after riding a slide called the Steamer in 2011 and another who was tossed off his raft, over the railing and down to the concrete below following a collision on a slide called the Bobsleigh in 2012.
The water park, which is located east of Ottawa in Limoges, had been facing 20 charges, but nine were withdrawn during the trial by the prosecution and the justice of the peace hearing the case acquitted Calypso of another five.
Friday’s sentencing hearing caps a rough opening week for the water park, which was fined $100,000 last Thursday after pleading guilty to two charges under the Environmental Protection Act for a pair of chlorine leaks into a wave pool in 2012. The leaks caused approximately 20 people, including many children, to become sick. Thirteen people were taken to hospital with symptoms including shortness of breath, burning sensation and pain in the mouth, nose, eyes, throat and lungs, nausea and headaches.
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Prosecutor Tom Ayres argued that “greed and profit” led the water park east of Ottawa to put the popular Steamer slide back in service immediately after a woman suffered a broken vertebra in July 2011.
Calypso continued running the ride for a month before a member of the public complained and an investigation launched, Ayres said.
Another accident on the Bobsleigh ride in 2012 that left a man unconscious was “easily and entirely preventable.”
“The circumstances in this case cry out for a substantial penalty,” said Ayres. Prosecutors would be “remiss in our duty to public safety if we didn’t seek a substantial penalty.”
Calypso was found guilty in April of six safety violations under Ontario’s Technical Standards and Safety Act. The violations included having one water slide that posed a danger to its riders and another that had undertrained staff.
The water park was also cited for failures to report serious injuries to the authorities and shut down a ride promptly after a series of accidents that left riders hurt.
Those injuries included a woman who suffered a broken vertebra after riding a slide called the Steamer in 2011 and another who was tossed off his raft, over the railing and down to the concrete below following a collision on a slide called the Bobsleigh in 2012.
The water park, which is located east of Ottawa in Limoges, had been facing 20 charges, but nine were withdrawn during the trial by the prosecution and the justice of the peace hearing the case acquitted Calypso of another five.
Friday’s sentencing hearing caps a rough opening week for the water park, which was fined $100,000 last Thursday after pleading guilty to two charges under the Environmental Protection Act for a pair of chlorine leaks into a wave pool in 2012. The leaks caused approximately 20 people, including many children, to become sick. Thirteen people were taken to hospital with symptoms including shortness of breath, burning sensation and pain in the mouth, nose, eyes, throat and lungs, nausea and headaches.
aseymour@ottawacitizen.com
Twitter.com/andrew_seymour
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