OSHA warned of SeaWorld orca attack

Last week's death at SeaWorld has brought up speculation about whether people should work with animals who are kept in captivity. Now it appears that an OSHA report exists warning of the potential for a fatal event.

CNN is reporting that there existed an OSHA report that warned of the possibility of an attack after an accident at SeaWorld in California in 2006. The OSHA report predicted that a whale trainer at SeaWorld in San Diego would be killed. The report from OSHA stated, "swimming with captive orcas is inherently dangerous and if someone hasn't been killed already it is only a matter of time." This was uncovered by CNN's Randi Kaye in a video report. The report has been picked-up by a number of various online news agencies, like Orcinus, and vidpod Kaye's report goes on to present evidence of the number of people who have been injured by captive orcas as well as four people who have been killed. An expert in the video talked about the fact that if an orca turns on a trainer that there is nothing he or she can do. In the original OSHA report it states that these trainers should train for when the event happened and not if. According to Kaye this angered SeaWorld and they went to OSHA about it, supposedly making them change the original report. Deleted, were statements concerning the prediction that an event will happen as well as statements concerning the training that employees should go through in case they are attacked. OSHA acknowledged that the statements in the original report were speculative and not fact driven. Randi Kaye reported that the original OSHA report was 18 pages while the revised one was only 8 pages.