Disneyland hostess Deborah Gail Stone, 18, from Santa Ana, is the first employee fatality. She dies after being caught between the America Sings carousel's rotating theater wall and a stationary stage wall. Standing

Three youths are shot in Tomorrowland in the park's first reported large-scale gang fight. [DLDHISTORY: We are unable to find an exact date for this

18-year old Mel Yorba becomes Disneyland's first murder victim. Yorba is stabbed to death during a fight with James O'Driscoll, 28, who says Yorba had pinched his girlfriend. He was treated by a park nurse, then taken

In the park's first gang murder, Selesi Tai, 15, a Compton gang member, is shot four times with his own gun after an argument with rival gang member Keleti Naea, 21. [DLDHISTORY: We are unable to find an exact

Billie Jean Matay and her daughter, Denise Bennett, and the three children were robbed after visiting the park. The family was climbing into their sport- utility vehicle to go home when, she felt what she later realized

Robin Paulson, 49, alleges that she and her four children were grabbed, shaken, kicked and punched, by at least five Disneyland

Ricky Lee Yama, a 17-year-old Hawthorne, CA, resident, was killed when he disregarded safety instructions and exited his People Mover car as the ride was passing through a tunnel. Yama slipped as he was jumping from

Gerardo Gonzales, a recent San Diego high school graduate, was killed on the People Mover. Gonzales, in the early morning hours of a Grad Nite celebration, was climbing from car to car as the People Mover entered the

Nayeli Diana Placentia, 8, from Downey, was hit in the back by an apparent stray bullet as she rode the Disneyland Railroad in the Fantasyland section of the Anaheim park. The train was pulling to a stop at the

The Gullywhumper (Keel Boat) loaded with 49 guests (normal maximum capacity is 32) began rocking from side to side while on a routine trip around the island. The Gullywhumper tipped over, dunking a boatload of guests

Two Disneyland visitors suffered critical injuries when a metal cleat broke loose from the Columbia Sailing Ship in Frontierland, snapping like a rubber band into a crowd of visitors. Luan Phi Dawson, 48, and Lieu

A crane being used during renovation of the Matterhorn mountain topples in the early morning, injuring one construction worker. The park was closed at the

A 17-year-old Anaheim girl working as a hostess on the Star Tours ride fractures her skull after falling onto the concrete floor. She had been ordered to climb out on a darkened catwalk to retrieve a fallen

A musician is severely hurt by an out-of-control float in the Lion King Parade. The float smashed the employee into an iron

A 5 year old boy fell into the waters of Jungle Cruise. The boy was boarding the boat when an attendant allegedly became distracted while helping him on board. August 17,1994--A jury awards $21,120 to a boy

A 15-year-old boy trips and falls 15 feet off the monorail at the Disneyland Hotel. The Santa Maria boy suffers a fractured elbow and other

A 30-year-old man named Randle Charles fell approximately 20 feet from one of the Skyway cabins and landed in a tree near the "Alice in Wonderland" attraction. He was helped out of the tree by paramedics and taken to

Two children are treated for scratches and bruises at the Toontown attraction after a chandelier at Goofy's Bounce House comes loose and falls on

A construction worker at Disneyland is critically injured when he falls 30 feet from scaffolding in the Pirates of the Caribbean

A 13-year-old Canadian girl is injured when a support arm on the Dumbo Flying Elephant Ride

Christina Schaal 17 from Sunland, breaks both legs and fractures an arm after she falls from her wheelchair onto a moving platform at the Haunted Mansion ride. June 24, 1988 --Christina Schaal's case has

An 11 year old boy is thrown from the Mad Tea Cups and struck by a second cup. He sustained a fractured spine, shoulder injury and nerve damage in one

An employee working on the Matterhorn attraction slipped while trying to release a bobsled during a breakdown. His foot went under the track and the sled ran over it, tearing the top and pulverizing the bones. A

A 41-year-old woman going down the Chip 'n Dale Tree Slide struck her left knee on a decorative acorn on the side railing. The woman had to have arthroscopic surgery and a kneecap replacement. [DLDHISTORY: We

During a performance of Fantasmic, a four-year-old and a 21-year-old got struck in the eye by a burning firework, and a 16-year-old said a bright blue light came toward him, and people started shouting, "Get it off!

A Lake Forest teenager whose leg was caught beneath Roger Rabbit's Cartoon Spin ride is being described as a "lucky little girl" by hospital officials and paramedics, who said that she suffered no broken bones or

A car on the Space Mountain coaster stopped suddenly when a wheel support arm came loose. The safety system on the ride, which reaches a maximum speed of about 30 mph as it winds its way through a half-mile course,

Brandon Zucker, 4, did not have a pulse when paramedics arrived after he fell off the Roger Rabbit Car Toon Spin Ride. "With a resuscitative efforts his vital signs improved," Dr. Marianne Cinat "His injuries include a

Blake Borbeck a 15-year-old Mesa Arizona boy's foot apparently became stuck between the ride's caterpillar-shaped car and a 3-inch- high horizontal bar that keeps the cars on the track, on Alice in Wonderland ride. The

Three Disneyland employees were injured in a behind-the-scenes accident when the golf cart they were riding in turned over. Five members of Disneyland's "facilities cast," who do chores like painting and cleanup, were

33-year-old Melanie Hershock was injured on Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean attraction. Hershock, slipped and hit her head on one of the boat's plastic benches while trying to climb out. She was holding her

Twenty-seven people suffered minor injuries when a tree fell at Disneyland. A tree, A 20-foot oak, fell and injured a group of visitors.. Firefighters were treating as many as a dozen children and adults. Jeanne Gill,

Los Angeles Airways (Flight 841), a company providing regular passenger service between Los Angeles International Airport and the Disneyland-Anaheim heliport adjacent to Disneyland, was operating a Sikorsky S-61L

The Los Angeles Airways (Flight 417) Sikorsky S-61L helicopter (N300Y), on a flight from Los Angeles International Airport to the Disneyland-Anaheim heliport located adjacent to the popular theme park, was flying

Early in the day during an otherwise sedate ride on the Skyway, 15 year old Mark Maples of Long Beach argued with a girl over going steady. His friends had to restrain him from flinging himself to the ground 50 feet

Dollie Young 48 of Fremont had been enjoying an impromptu Disneyland visit with old friends from Arizona. Dollie was riding alone in the rear car of the Matterhorn bobsled, so no one saw quite what happened. Disney

43-year-old Zipora Jacob claims that she was jostled so bad on the Indiana Jones Adventure that she suffered a brain hemorrhage. She felt ill during the ride and after staggered out of the vehicle, vomited and

A 4-year-old boy from the Palos Verdes Peninsula was taken to UCI Medical Center in Orange after he fell off the carousel. He suffered from a

A 6-year-old girl lost most of an index finger while playing with a toy rifle on Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland. Anaheim paramedics report on the incident said Priscilla Figueroa slipped and that her finger had gotten

Space Mountain triggered a standard "cascade ride stop," which is supposed to stop the rockets, one at a time, as they enter the next brake zone. Unfortunately, one rocket shot through one of the last brake zones

Deborah Bynum of San Diego alleges a brain hemorrhage was caused by the Indiana Jones ride June 21, 2001--Deborah Bynum settled a lawsuit out of

David Fackler, 5, suffered a serious foot injury at the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. His toes are later

An operator dispatches a log on Splash Mountain before Yvonne Traina, 67, was seated, causing her to be thrown "rapidly backward" in her seat. When she screamed and he stopped the ride, she was thrown forward. After

Just before midnight, 50-year-old James Margolin and his son took one last trip on Big Thunder. After exiting the ride, the two walked about 500 feet, when Margolin complained of chest pains. He collapsed and lost

A 4-year-old boy was hurt when he fell in front of the cars on the Autopia ride at Disneyland. Dean Fryer, a spokesman for the California Department of Occupational Safety and Health, said the boy suffered minor

The Big Thunder Mountain Railroad locomotive that leads the train lost a "bogie"- the assembly that carries the rear wheels - derailed, decoupled from the rest of the train, and struck the roof of Safety Tunnel One,

Three injured passengers, who complained of neck and back pains, were a family of Canadians, including a 44-year-old woman, a 42-year-old man and a 10-year old boy, when two trains collide in the station. They were

Mayra Perez, 34 – was knocked unconscious and taken to Western Medical Center in Anaheim. Three other people were treated at the scene after they were struck by a Disneyland parade "Genie" float. "A Christmas