Deaths at Disney World

Mickey Mouse has a problem on his hands: “The accidental death of a performer at Walt Disney Co.'s Walt Disney World in Florida—the third employee fatality at the park since early July—has prompted separate local and federal investigations,” according to The Wall Street Journal. Anislav Varbanov, 30, died on Monday after he was injured while performing a tumbling roll for a rehearsal for a show based on Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark. Last week, Mark Prince, 47, died from a head injury he suffered during a performance of a pirate show. And in July, Austin Wuennenberg, 21, died when another monorail backed into the one he was operating. The U.S. Labor Department has now sent an Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigator to Orlando. “OSHA has launched five inspections of parts of Disney World in 2009, three because of the fatalities and two in response to complaints,” The Journal said.