A Walt Disney World staffer was injured while saving guests from the malfunctioning “Indiana Jones” attraction, the latest in a spate of recent deaths and medical emergencies at the once-magical Orlando theme park.
A TikTok posted Tuesday shows the cast member running out in front of the faux boulder — a key set piece, which the video describes as weighing 400 lbs. — as it “falls off track” and heads for the audience during the “Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular!” show, only to get hit by the massive prop.
Other employees rush over as the horrified crowd cranes their necks to see what happened, with one guest asking, “For real?” as the injured man’s bloodied head can be seen while he’s escorted out.
A man assures the girls in front of him that “it’s alright,” and instructs everybody to clap, “He literally saved our lives, that guy. … That guy legit saved our lives.”
“We’re focused on supporting our cast member, who is recovering,” representatives for Disney World said in a statement to the Daily News. “Safety is at the heart of what we do, and that element of the show will be modified as our safety team completes a review of what happened.”
Disney did not comment further on the heroic staffer, or his current condition.
The employee was identified on X, formerly Twitter, as a former stuntman named Robert, who “received 6 stitches but is recovering in the hospital. … His quick thinking saved many,” wrote friend Ashley Suit, asking people to “please keep him in your prayers.”
The incident comes at the end of a dark fourth quarter for Disney World, beginning with the death of a woman in her 60s, who became unresponsive in early October when riding the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland in Anaheim.
Four people then died at Disney World over a three-week period from mid-October to early November, beginning with the apparent suicide of a 31-year-old woman at the Contemporary Resort and a 28-year-old man several days later at the same hotel.
Between the two apparent suicides, a male in his 60s suffered a “medical episode” at the Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground’s Cottontail Curl loop on Oct. 22 and died later at an area hospital.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office later confirmed to the Daily News that a woman in her 40s was transported on Nov. 2 to the hospital, where she ultimately died. “There were no signs of foul play.”
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