An engineer says having all available anchor points secured on a jumping castle may not have prevented it becoming airborne — but still, not enough was done to ensure safety before six children died in 2021.
Expert says Hillcrest jumping castle tragedy may still have occurred with all eight tethers, but operator still should have sought adviceExpert says Hillcrest jumping castle tragedy may still have occurred with all eight tethers, but operator still should have sought adviceChace Harrison, Jalailah Jayne-Maree Jones, Zane Mellor, Addison Stewart, Jye Sheehan and Peter Dodt died at their end of year celebrations at Hillcrest Primary School in 2021.
Engineer Roderick McDonald says the jumping castle operator "should have sought help" in understanding her obligations and the safety standards. Ms Gamble is accused of failing in several ways, including in using four pegs to anchor the castle, which had eight anchor points. He suggested that because of that, and because it was not possible to calculate the dust devil's exact forces and windspeeds, it was possible that even if eight pegs that met Australian standards were used to anchor the jumping castle, the anchorage system may have failed.Mr McDonald said that the possibility of the failure Mr Dockray referred to was dependent on several other variables and failures, most of which could not be predicted.
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