KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- A witness to the tragic death of a 10-year-old boy on the world's tallest water slide in Kansas has revealed gruesome details of how the boy died. Castaneda's wife Leslie, told The Kansas City Star that she had seen the blood-streaked ride shortly after the horrific incident andCaleb's distraught family gathered nearby. "They kinda said, 'Oh no, really,' or something, 'Yes, that's not good.' Four rides at the water park remained closed after regulators found that Schlitterbahn did not comply with new legislation implemented in response to Schwabs death. This is a scary picture. When it was time to check out Verrckt, Schwab offered a reminder to his boysspecifically to ten-year-old Caleb, the second oldest of his children who loved playing outside. Five defendants are charged in Schwab's death: Jeff Henry, John Schooley, Henry and Son's Construction, Tyler Miles and Schlitterbahn Water Park (KC Water Park Management Company). 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Schlitterbahn is an important tourist attraction in our community, and we hope it remains open and a success, Taylor told Esquire. (Miles, the twenty-nine-year-old operations manager, took her incident report, which is now allegedly missing from Schlitterbahns records.). A floor a day. The magnitude of the project was not lost on at least one installer who had worked on fifteen to twenty projects for Schlitterbahn as part of Henry & Sons Construction, the general contractor owned by Henry that was put in charge of building Verrckt. The chute drops 168 feet, 7 inches, and the raft hits speeds of 60 to 70 mph. Yikes that is awful. People on reddit were being as you'd expect ("Omg so unsafe I'd never ride"), but there were a few people who said they were there and that there was blood everywhere. A water park and a former employee have been indicted in the death of 10-year-old Caleb Schwab, who was decapitated while riding the Verrckt waterslide in 2016. Not too far away, Nathan Schwab was waiting at the bottom of the slide for his brother, Caleb, to come down Verrckt. No time to die. But whatever legend the slide was building had been boarded up at eye level, with wood panels blocking the splash site where Schwab was supposed to come down safely. Neither Egan nor Dueas has been back since, but Dueas said he isnt opposed to it. We will see him another day.. Accident happened on Verrckt slide this afternoon. Supreme Court to Play Jenga with Federal Budget, Merrick Garland Is Going to Have a Long Day, Nebraska Lawmaker Vows to Stop Anti-Trans Bill, Supreme Court Narrowly Averts 'Nullification'. I wonder if it ended up there by accident or was it pulled off the ride in the aftermath? Timothy Bella is a staff writer and editor for the Washington Post, focusing on national news. The Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, had already put together an effort to convince residents to spend their recreational dollars in Kansas instead of Missouri. Its dangerous, but its a safe dangerous now, Henry told USA Today in the lead-up to the opening. All Rights Reserved. The decision to keep the world's tallest water slide closed follows the death of a 10-year-old boy from injuries in a Sunday afternoon accident on the slide. Two media sneak preview days in 2014 were canceled because of problems with a conveyor system that hauls 100-pound rafts to the top of the slide. Verruckt's 2014 opening was repeatedly delayed, though the operators didn't explain why. According to the March indictment, at least thirteen nonfatal injuries suffered by guests who rode Verrckt were recorded in the 182 days the ride was open between 2014 and 2016, up to and including the day of Calebs death. Though its two highest attended parks, New Braunfels and Galveston, remained in the top ten for U.S. water-park attendance last year, they were both down 3 percent each from their 2016 attendance. This is terrible. DeSantis coming to CA as new poll shows him leading Trump. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. But that wasnt the only thing that unsettled her. 'There are no federal standards and so it really is up to the park operators, the manufacturers of the rides and the states to make sure this is a safe environment," said Deborah Hersman, president and CEO of the National Safety Council.'. World's tallest waterslide where 10-year-old was decapitated Caleb ,the son of a Kansas state lawmaker, suffered a fatal injury on the 168-foot-tall ride at the Schlitterbahn water park Aug. 7.. But even with bad knees, nothing was stopping the struggling Dueas from getting to the top. And interviews with numerous former Schlitterbahn employees and park visitors who rode the Verrckt, together with the indictment, paint a picture of hubris and shoddy safety standards that, when combined, ultimately proved deadly.[Verrckt] could hurt me, it could kill me, it is a seriously dangerous piece of equipment today, because there are things that we dont know about it, Henry said during the testing of the slide. You feel nauseous driving around it, said Chris Kamler, a forty-six-year-old resident who worked across the highway from the water park when the slide was still standing. We literally worked around the clock.. ', '(The boy) looked skinny,' she added. About 2,100 people took the courses last year, according to the Red Cross. Meanwhile, the Kansas Schlitterbahn has been sued three times for negligence since 2014,although none were related to the Verrckt water slide,KCUR reports. Esteban Castaneda, who was at the Kansas City waterpark, told ABC 7he heard loud booms coming from the ride before noticing a body wash down after a raft. The collateral? ', She added that the brother - who had seen Caleb die - told a theme-park worker, 'I just saw my little brother die because of one of your attractions. Also from Twitter, witnesses are reporting that the harness system wasn't functioning properly prior to the accident. What made me say that was that the sandbags that were being tested kept flying off the rafts. (The anecdote was corroborated in the reporting from the July story in Texas Monthly. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Accidental death at Schlitterbahn in Kansas City. In the spring of 2018, Schlitterbahns park in Corpus Christi was sold at a bankruptcy auction after a company run by the Henry brothers accrued thirty-two million dollars in unexplained cost overruns to run the facility. As Michele Schwab, Caleb's mother, tried to get closer to see what was going on, a gentleman stopped her. "These are not the actions of someone who believed the ride to be dangerous. That same summer, Sara Egan and her fianc visited the park on a day when law enforcement, first responders, and veterans got in for free. I learned everything I know about water by looking at it, watching it, Henry told author Tim OBrien in Legends: Pioneers of the Amusement Park Industry. However, the particular ride that killed a 10-year old boy Sunday remains closed. Even with the slide finally down, a community that once looked to Schlitterbahn as a summer refuge remains shaken and searching for answers of what went wrong. By. Jess Stanford and Melanie Gocke were at the Schlitterbahn water park in Kansas City, Kansas, on the same day a ten-year-old boy was killed on the 17-storey ride last week. Did Rupert Murdoch Blow Up Fox News's Defense? Another witness to the tragedy revealed some of the gruesome details surrounding the boys death earlier in the week. She alleged that she was injured by the park's King-Kaw attraction while riding it. The trust said that if the company defaults on its Kansas City mortgage, then the loan would either be restructured or EPR could even foreclose on Schlitterbahns collateral that got the loan in the first place. How safe is your neighborhood? View our online Press Pack. The driving force behind it was Henry, a high school graduate who spent one week at college and never had any formal training in engineering. Margaret Studyvin, an administrative assistant with the department, said it wasn't clear when or if autopsy results would be made public. Courtesy Schwab Family -- A 10-year-old boy who died on a water slide in Kansas City, Kansas, suffered a fatal neck injury, officials said, as a witness recounted the "horrific scene" and the "panic" that erupted in the wake of the incident last Sunday. The opening of the Verrckt was delayed several times as the development team made adjustments. The Verrckt being built at the Schlitterbahn Kansas City Waterpark, on November 11, 2013. (The state's assistant attorney general refuted Schlitterbahn's suggestion that the grand jury was "too stupid to discern a television show for evidence. Jeff[. "As soon as I hit the bottom of the first curve the shoulder strap just kind of busted loose," Oberhauser said. In times of fear, Sanford says she resorts to humor, which is exactly what she did with the twenty-something lifeguard who helped strap her into the raft at the top of Verrckt around noon that summer Sunday. The 168ft-high Verruckt, which means "insane" in German, was certified as the world's tallest water slide by Guinness World Records. In March 2014, Linda Stomboly sued the water park alleging she was seriously injured in August 2012 on the King Kaw white water rapids attraction, KCUR reports. Her case was also settled, according to her lawyer. Another instance involved a man who identified himself as the designer of the slide, whom prosecutors strongly believed was Henry: He allegedly bragged to Richard Palmer, a forty-two-year-old who was seeking medical assistance after breaking his toes on the slide, about his achievements and how he wanted to build a ride taller than the Verrckt. Tyler Austin Miles,. She said her flotation tube collided with another tube during the descent sending her flying. 2023 BDG Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Schwab and his wife released a statement confirming it was their son Caleb Thomas Schwab, whose family were at the park with him when he died. Either way, it's tragic. Even with the investigation into Schlitterbahn and Verrckt, and the larger questions surrounding safety regulation and oversight within the amusement-park industry, experts and lobbyists say that most rides are safe enough.In 2016, the most recent year from which data is available, 384 million guests experienced 1.7 billion rides at four hundred U.S. amusement parks without injury, according to the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA), the worlds largest trade association representing the global attractions industry. Posted on January 13, 2020. Theres a hole in our family, and were learning to live with that.. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Robert Boepple filed his lawsuit just two months later claiming he sufferedinjuries to his head, neck, back, arm and spine when his toe got caught ona 'protruding item' on theBoogie Bahn surfing ride. The company also promised to aggressively fight the criminal charges against Miles and the park, and respond to the allegations in the 47-page indictment "point by point.". Because of how fast you go on that ride, it all kind of happened in a blink.. As far as Im concerned, they should be in jail for the rest of their lives. Of course, a jury will decide whether they will be. It came off and I was like, Whoa, kind of grabbing a hold of the straps and trying to hold myself down. He added: I told the lifeguard that the strap came off, and the only words he could say were, I would have crapped my pants.. Republican Senators Form Wingnut Xylophone, Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads. Take it as you want to because it's from Twitter but witnesses have reported that the harness system was malfunctioning prior to this accident. A source familiar with the investigation into the boy's death told the Associated. For what is your life? Thrilryder29, 3. Two media sneak preview days in 2014 were cancelled because of problems with a conveyor system that hauls 100-pound rafts to the top of the slide. There are no federal inspection laws for waterparks in the U.S., and inspections are handled on a state-by-state basis. (Baetz and Barnes, the two sisters who rode with Caleb and suffered serious facial injuries, settled with Schlitterbahn for an undisclosed amount in 2017. "This is not something that we've experienced. Samantha Soper's head was whipped side to side like that of a rag doll on a raft that had been repaired with duct tape, causing the twenty-three-year-old to suffer from severe neck pain. Many lawmakers were at Schlitterbahn for Elected Official Day. From the ninth floor of his office, staring at Verrckt was once inescapable: It [stood] as a monument to a murder.. One little boy was screaming for help, Sanford remembered. 10-year-old boy dies on 17-story waterslide The Verrckt - the world's tallest water slide, at Kansas City's Schlitterbahn water park - is known for its unparalleled, 168-foot vertical drop.. During. Scott Schwab is a Republican from Olathe. Winter Prosapio, spokesperson for Schlitterbahn, said the boy died on the Verruckt water slide, which is promoted as the worlds tallest water slide. Based on a three-year average of the most recent data, the chance of being seriously injured on a fixed-site ride at a U.S. amusement park is one in seventeen million, said Susan Storey, IAAPAs director of communications. It was shocking and tragic when Caleb Schwab, 10, was decapitated on August 17, 2016 on the Verruckt waterslide at the Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City. They included a single count of involuntary manslaughter over the death of Caleb Schwab in 2016. The police are working with the park on the investigation. By April 2014, the Guinness Book of World Records officially declared Verrckt the worlds tallest waterslide, despite it not being close to finished. No jail for mum who starved her baby on water only diet, Fire warning issued over kids phone chargers, Baby joy! In an interview published in July 2018 with Texas Monthly, Henry refused to acknowledge that he could have designed something that would eventually kill Caleb. Those showed more than 4,200 people a year taken to emergency rooms to be treated for scrapes, concussions, broken limbs, spinal injuries and other such injuries suffered on public waterslides. That is insane. I have to admit that this slide does look freaking crazy scary! Miles' attorneys said in their own statement that they welcome the opportunity to prove his innocence in court. The two women who rode with Caleb suffered serious injuries and settled claims with Schlitterbahn for an undisclosed amount. Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article94254507.html#storylink=cpy. www.kansascity.com/news/local/article94254507.html. And [the man] just shook his head. But before the park closed for the day, the forty-one-year-old wanted to ride the slide he had heard so much about. In a news article linked to the news release announcing a 2014 delay, Schlitterbahn co-owner Jeff Henry told USA Today that he and senior designer John Schooley had based their calculations when designing the slide on roller coasters, but that didn't translate well to a waterslide like Verruckt. Not reporting injuries makes no sense to me. Prosapio could not say whether the boy fell from the 17-story ride and she could not even say what time Sunday afternoon the incident occurred. Other witness accounts stated the scale at the top of the slide was malfunctioning that day. And then I came back and told my brother and sister. He was the son of Republican state Rep. Scott Schwab, of Olathe, and the family reached settlements of nearly $20 million with Schlitterbahn and various companies associated with the design and construction of the waterslide. A former lifeguard who spoke with Esquire saw firsthand the issues with not just the record-breaking slide, but also the work culture at the Kansas City park. Visitors flocked to Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City, Kansas, to experience its thrill. She wondered to herself if the Velcro straps that held riders in place were safe enough on a waterslide deemed by the Guinness Book of World Records two years earlier to be the tallest in existence. Two workers are charged with lying to . To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. 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The 168ft-high Verruckt, which means "insane" in German, was certified as the world's tallest water slide by Guinness World Records. Sign up for a new account in our community. The Kansas City park remained closed Monday as the investigation into what caused the death on the waterslide. Republican Scott Schwab's son Caleb was killed while ridingon the Verruckt attraction at Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City with witnesses saying a lifeguard was desperately trying to hold back crowds from the gruesome scene. Asking for privacy to grieve, they said: "Since the day he was born, he brought abundant joy to our family and all those he came in contact with.". In March 2018, a forty-seven-page indictment from a grand jury in Wyandotte County revealed, among other things, whistle-blower evidence of how Schlitterbahn officials allegedly covered up other safety-related incidents on Verrckt, and concluded that the slides lack of safety standards posed a substantial and unjustifiable risk of death or severe bodily harm. While it isnt unique for amusement parks to get sued for isolated incidents, the magnitude of the Schwab tragedy, and Schlitterbahns decorated profile, made the grand jurys findings of the water parks negligence that much more damning. Verrckt opened in July 2014. In a statement Monday afternoon, Schlitterbahn said it was 'deeply and intensely saddened for the Schwab family and all who were impacted by the tragic accident.' Schlitterbahns future also remains uncertain. Back on his feet: Determined French gymnast who snapped his Woman is thrown completely naked out of a moving car and Death toll from Hurricane Earl rises to 39 due to massive Autopsy underway on 10-year-old boy killed on world's WHY WASN'T WORLD'S TALLEST SLIDE INSPECTED? "He would have fallen down without the raft. Because of heavy demand, rides are scheduled by reservation at the time the park opens each day. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/, Caleb Thomas Schwab, 10, died in an accident on theworld's tallest waterslide in Kansas City, Caleb Thomas Schwab was decapitated while on the ride with his family, including his father Scott Schwab, a Kansas state lawmaker, left devastated, Witnesses said they were devastated when they saw the blood streaked Verruckt slide, The waterslide in Kansas City is billed as the world's tallest and is 168ft high, The ride is named Verruck and translates to "insane" in German, Caleb was the son of Kansas Republican state representative Scott Schwab, Fire engines pictured at the scene of the accident yesterday, Those wanting to ride the waterslide must climb 264 stairs to reach the top, The ride uses rafts to hold groups of people as they fly down at speeds of 65mph, Republican Scott Schwab's son Caleb was killed while ridingon the Verruckt attraction at Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City. The indictment also said Henry helped design the giant waterslide even though he had "no technical or engineering credentials" and that he set a "rushed timeline" for its construction. I like to think theyre pals up there.. When I heard a noise that didnt sound like it was supposed to come from that kind of ride, thats when I turned around, Sanford told. Witnesses of waterslide tragedy recount boy's fatal fall. As of now, it is unclear whether the park will open for the 2019 seasonseason passes were made available for Schlitterbahn's four Texas locations earlier this month, but not for Kansas City. Walking out of a Wyandotte County, Kansas, courtroom this past April, Henryregarded in the water-park industry as the Wizard of Wet, Lord of the Slides, and an aquatic Walt Disneywas surrounded by his legal counsel, confidants, and local media. His first book, BARKLEY, is due out in 2022 for Hanover Square Press. 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