Amusement park industry initiates incident reporting system.

Publication: CPSC Monitor

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The amusement park industry has often been at odds with CPSC over the agency's assessment of the rate of injuries associated with amusement park rides.

Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA), a frequent critic of the industry, has proposed federal regulation for fixed-site amusement park rides. Markey has advocated granting jurisdiction over such rides to CPSC. CPSC currently has jurisdiction only over mobile rides.

Markey and former CPSC Chairman Ann Brown argued that CPSC's data showed striking increases in injury rates at fixed-site amusement parks, and that CPSC needed to have jurisdiction over these parks in order to protect the public.

Markey had...

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