A 59-year-old carnival worker died, when he was struck by the Kamikaze pendulum ride he was operating. The employee with over 30 years experience in the industry, apparently slipped while trying to retrieve an object a passenger dropped. Source
December
Mt. Olympus, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, USA
A 16-year-old boy was killed when he fell about 35 feet (10.6m) while attempting to sled down one of the closed off snow-covered water slides at Mt. Olympus Water & Theme Park. Source