AN ACCIDENT in which a maintenance engineer suffocated after his fall-arrest line caught in a fairground ride's mechanism has led to a 145,000 pounds penalty for a subsidiary of the company which owns the Blackpool Pleasure Beach. William Birchall was killed on 25 August 2004 as he carried out weekly maintenance checks on the Skyride, a cable ride similar to a ski-lift, at the Pleasureland park in Southport. Birchall was at the top of the ride's 10.7m return tower, lubricating a wheel which carried the cable. A colleague was at the main controls at the far end of the ride, starting and stopping the mechanism on Birchall's instructions via a two-way radio. While the cable was moving, Birchall's safety line, intended to protect him against a fall, was caught in the return wheel.
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机译：事故中，一名维修工程师在他的防坠落线陷入游乐场的机制后窒息而死，导致该公司拥有黑潭游乐海滩的一家子公司受到145,000英镑的罚款。 William Birchall于2004年8月25日在Southport的Pleasureland公园对Skyride（类似于缆车的缆车）进行每周维护检查时被杀。 Birchall在该游乐设施的10.7m回程塔的顶部，润滑了一个用来承载电缆的轮子。骑行的另一端是一位同事在主要控制装置上，他根据Birchall的指示通过双向收音机启动和停止该装置。电缆在移动时，Birchall的旨在保护他免于跌倒的安全线被卡在回程轮中。
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