seriously. no one goes to a show to get hurt. poor guy's gonna get called Indy the rest of his life too

as funny as the video looks

What part was funny?

The audience was disappointed they weren't seeing real terror

So that if it rolls out to the crowd to crush and kill a family Indy will look way cooler. And look, it worked. That guy and his compressed spine look cool as fuck.

the foam one probably didn't bounce right

The way the dude's body bounced off of it, it definitely looked like it was 400 pounds.

Why do they have a 400 pound one now?

This one is rubber.

Disney should just pay him 10% of the expected total of the lawsuits if it had in fact rolled through the crowd. He'd be set for life for sure.

Disney Lawyers are something else. I hear Satan wont even let them into hell because he fears them, they just stay in purgatory with the unbaptized babies.

Disney will settle out of court with a(n) NDA('s) for an undisclosed amount so we will never know.

I expect that won't be necessary. Disney has the opportunity to get good PR out of this. All they need to do is sing this worker's praises, parade their hero around a bit, compensate him appropriately, pay for all medical needs, etc. All together a small cost for some good press and a happy ending.

It's a workman's comp claim.

But sue for... What? I can't imagine Disney was negligent it anything. This show has run for decades and the cast member willingly put himself in danger.

This

The guy really tried doing his best in a split second but there is a good chance they'll just fire his ass for this. The audience may think him a hero but HR?

An actual boulder of similar size could be 3-5 tons and would've resulted in the death of everyone involved

Because they're indicating that is the exact word used in Disney's statement.

My guess is because the amount of “recovery” needed is uncertain. Are they just being monitored for head trauma but otherwise have nothing beyond scrapes and bruises? Or do they have broken bones and a severe concussion?

Nah. I'm a former Cast Member and I've spent some time injured on Disney's dime in a much lower stakes version of this. If they're able to sit upright they'll be given seated light duty tasks like putting hangers on clothing and gluing popsicle sticks on Olaf butts to make fans for the guests. It's honestly the best workers comp experience I've ever had, they've got on property doctors who are actually pretty good and if you get injured after their office closes they've got a deal with an off property urgent care who sucked but I had zero paperwork to deal with. Also if I didn't have a five star workers comp experience, the union would have had something to say about it - Cast Members are unionised.

Edit: not to say Disney doesn't suck, I absolutely have horror stories and everyone who has worked for them does, but their workers comp process was actually pretty great.

It's Disney, so it will probably go like this:

"You're okay, right? No need to file a workers comp claim, right? That would raise your insurance rates, you know, and you don't want that. Just walk it off, and don't talk about, and it will feel better fast. So, since this "didn't happen," I expect you to be on time for your next shift tomorrow. You can take it easy today though, maybe just stand at the exit and say Goodbye to guests, okay? I mean it, I don't want to see a workers comp claim, got it?"

I think this was less “caring about their job” and more “caring about people”. Yes, it sucks that he was injured on the job, and will likely end up spending a ton in medical bills, ongoing health issues, etc… But people don’t tend to jump in front of danger just because it’s their job.

I’ve done similarly stupid things on the clock to prevent people from getting injured. Not because I was worried about my employer, but because I didn’t want to see people get injured. If it was just gear getting damaged, I’d stand back and watch it go; the company has insurance for that. But it becomes a sort of trolley problem when you see someone (or a group of people) about to get injured, and decide to do nothing to stop it.

I used to study acting in New York, they were always trying to recruit actors for a 'role' in their retail store in times square, while paying minimum wage and ignoring student schedules.

Heavy things can bounce if they have the right properties. That ball looked to be going somewhere between 5-10 mph and that guy went down fast. That momentum had to come from the ball, and that ball has to weigh considerably more than he does to hit with that much force at that speed.

I mean, the boulder obviously escaped the script and they were trying to do the right thing

Looks like a low barrier. It could likely have bounced over.