Butterfly Festival fatal accident

CARNIVAL: A carnival worker with Christiansen Amusements was killed while operating a ride. According to police at the scene, the ride operator was working in a "dug-out" compartment in the base of the ride, and when he went to exit the space attempting to time the ride's movements, he was hit by the moving parts. By appearances, it was the ride called Kamikazee that was the site of the fatality.
The Kamikazee is a ride passengers sit in one of the ride's two cars, each holding about a dozen people. The two cars move in opposite directions, swinging like a pendulum, higher and higher until the cross at the top -- riders suspended upside down-- as the cars go over the top at apogee and make a full circle. With the cars' counterweights moving in balance, there are four massive moving parts crossing at the elevated floor of the ride during each cycle of movement, with a dozen or two of those cycles in each patron's ride.