Worker dies after plummeting from Tulsa fair skyride

Worker dies afterwards coast from Tulsa fair skyride, A artisan died Saturday morning while acclimation a gondola ride at the Tulsa, Okla., fairgrounds.

The artisan and a accomplice were 90 anxiety aloft the arena replacing a caster on the ride if the aliment brazier they were in bankrupt apart and plummeted to the ground, Tulsa Fire Department captain Stan May told USA TODAY.

“They were acclimatized up so it larboard them dangling about 85-feet in the air,” May said. “One of the workers had a alarming arch injury, went benumbed on the way down and went into cardiac arrest.”

May said the man, whose name and age were not released, died a bounded hospital. The additional artisan was active and in abiding condition.

Firefighters aloft a ladder belvedere to retrieve the men anon afore apex Saturday.

A anchorman with KOKI-TV in Tulsa captured the accomplishment on video as the men afraid in their harnesses.

The Tulsa fair is appointed to accessible on Oct. 1.
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