Tyre Sampson Autopsy – Nekia Dodd hoped no families would suffer as she has this past year as she watched construction workers demolish the amusement park ride where her 14-year-old son perished from a terrible fall. On March 24, Tyre Sampson plunged to his death from the Orlando FreeFall drop tower in ICON Park, which the ride’s operators claim is the largest freestanding drop tower in the world. The teenager was seen falling out of his seat on bystander footage just after the almost 400-foot descent of the ride started.
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Dodd, wearing a blouse with her son’s photo on it, circled the ride that killed her son. It has been closed since that day and is currently encircled by construction equipment and a chain link fence. 400 feet up in the air, the Orlando FreeFall lifted people in separate seats. The gondola was then released in a free fall that would reach 4Gs when the seat had slanted forward 30 degrees. After then, the ride broke around a hundred feet above the ground, according to a Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services inquiry. The state agency oversees amusement attractions.
The tower ride’s owner’s manual states that a person may only weigh 287 pounds. Tyre’s postmortem report states that he weighed 383 pounds and was just over 6 feet tall. The family claimed in a complaint that no scales nor posted weight restrictions were present at the ride location. Quest Engineering & Failure Analysis Inc., a forensic engineering firm, was recruited by Florida officials to look into the incident after it happened. Tyre’s harness and seat had a larger than usual gap between them because a harness sensor in his seat had been “manually loosened, adjusted, and tightened,” the firm’s inquiry revealed.
According to the state’s Bureau of Fair Rides investigation, attendants were told that if the indicator light on the seat illuminated, the patron was safe to ride, but they were not instructed on “weight requirements or proper loading procedures.” Furthermore, the report stated that the attendant inside the ring that day had only been employed for three days and was regarded as a “trainee.”
The state investigation states that the 14-year-old “slipped through the gap between the seat and harness” during the trip. According to the report’s conclusion, Tyre Sampson’s improper seat-securing was the accident’s primary cause. Tyre died, according to the postmortem report, from blunt force injuries.