Sunday, July 24, 2011

Child Injured At Bluegrass Fair

  • {Kentucky}...Officials at the Lexington Lions Club Bluegrass Fair are calling an incident Saturday night "strictly an accident." Lexington police Lt. Edward Hart says the Fun Zone, a "jungle gym" type obstacle course at the Bluegrass Fair was operating normally Saturday night when some mechanical part took off the top third of a 3 year old child's pinkie finger. The child, whose name was not released, was taken to University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital. Fair spokesman Michael Kaplan says the course was shut down "within minutes" after the incident and the state was notified. The Fun Zone is a "jungle gym" type activity that children crawl through. Kaplan says the state had inspected it before the fair opened.