Has anyone ever died at Kennywood?

Kennywood is an amusement park located in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, just southeast of Pittsburgh.

The park first opened on May 30, 1899, as a trolley park attraction at the end of the Mellon family’s Monongahela Street Railway.

The Scariest ride at Kennywood is The Phantom’s Revenge is a steel roller coaster that reaches a top speed of 85 mph and climbs to a towering 160 feet in the air.

Has anyone ever died at Kennywood?

Reports from the time indicate that the 40 foot by 100-foot building was moved 20 feet by the extreme winds trapping up to 100 people beneath the collapsed structure.

A minimum of 54 people suffered some type of injury due to this accident and there was 1 death.

After the roof from the pavilion that sheltered the Whip at Kennywood Park collapsed on May 31, 2002, park officials said it was “an act of God,” following an unheard-of weather event in the region that brought winds greater than 100 mph.