The Mall of America temporarily closed down one of its amusement rides in the wake of a fatal accident involving a similar ride in Ohio this week.

Mall officials said Thursday afternoon that the Shredder’s Mutant Masher ride at Nickelodeon Universe was closed as a precaution pending further inspection.

The decision came after one person was killed and several were injured when the Fire Ball ride broke apart Wednesday at the Ohio State Fair.

The Bloomington megamall said in a statement that its rides are inspected daily.

“Mall of America holds itself to the highest standards,” the statement read. “Our ride will remain inactive until we’ve been given appropriate clearance by our manufacturer.” The ride opened a few days later on July 29.

The Dutch company KMG, which manufactured the Ohio Fire Ball ride, instructed all 43 versions of the ride around the world to be shut down Thursday. The company said there are 11 such rides in the United States.

The Mall of America’s Mutant Masher, manufactured by Kansas-based Chance Rides, is not one of the KMG rides ordered to close. But Chance Rides obtained a license from KMG years ago to build a similar ride, according to Jeff Roth, vice president of administration for Chance.

Roth stressed that the Mall of America’s ride had little chance of malfunctioning as the Ohio ride did, because the chairs connect to the ride’s metal arms more securely than in KMG’s original design.

“The potential for failure on the Mall of America ride is nonexistent because of its dissimilarity from the Fire Ball ride in Ohio,” Roth said. He called the designs “entirely different.”

The Mutant Mashers attraction came to the mall in 2015, replacing the Danny Phantom Ghost Zone. It is one of nine attractions billed as “thrill” rides. The mall has 27 total rides.

It “functions as a giant pendulum, spinning and swinging riders more than 60 feet in the air,” according to the mall. It is associated with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise.

Inspectors repeatedly looked over the Ohio State Fair’s ride while it was assembled and signed off on it hours before it flew apart, according to authorities and records released Thursday.

Investigators are working to find out what caused the opening-day wreck, which killed a high school student and injured seven other people, including four teenagers.

The ride’s Dutch manufacturer told operators of the same attraction at fairs and festivals around the world to stop using it until more is learned about what caused the malfunction.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich shut down all rides at the state fair and ordered them inspected again. He said it was too early to say whether inspectors missed something that led to the tragedy Wednesday night.

“It’s a nightmare. It’s a terrible situation,” he said.

The Fire Ball ride has never been part of the Minnesota State Fair, according to officials there.

“The ride involved in the incident at the Ohio State Fair was not scheduled to be a part of the 2017 Minnesota State Fair, nor has it been a part of the Mighty Midway in the past,” the Fair said in a statement Thursday.

Rides are inspected prior to opening of the Minnesota State Fair and daily during the event.

“Safety is our number one priority,” the statement said

VICTIM JUST ENLISTED

Video taken by a bystander of the Ohio ride in action captured a crashing sound. A section holding four riders came apart, and screams could be heard as at least two people were ejected and plunged toward the ground. Other riders were still in their seats as they fell.

Tyler Jarrell, 18, of Columbus, was thrown about 50 feet and pronounced dead on the midway. The Marine Corps and school officials said Jarrell enlisted last week and was going to begin basic training next summer after his high school graduation.

“That was just this past Friday. Then he goes to the state fair and he is involved in this horrible tragedy. It’s just devastating,” said Capt. Gerard Lennon Jr., a naval science instructor in the Junior ROTC program at Jarrell’s high school. Related Articles St. Thomas convenes group on renamings after learning namesake bishop owned slave

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The injured ranged in age from 14 to 42. At least two were listed in critical condition. Some people were hit by debris.

Jarrell’s girlfriend was among those seriously injured, her mother told The Columbus Dispatch. Keziah Lewis, a University of Cincinnati student, doesn’t remember the accident and has pelvis, ankle and rib injuries, Clarissa Williams said.

“She kept asking for her boyfriend,” Williams said. “I had to tell her he was the one who was deceased.”

Kaylie Bellomy was in the next group waiting to board the Fire Ball.

“It was going for a minute and it was at its highest point and I saw somebody fall on the ride, and then a minute later the whole like row of seats fell off and hit the ground,” Bellomy told WCMH-TV.

She said it was chaos afterward: “Everybody was running. I got ran over trying to get out of the way.”

PASSED INSPECTION

Records show that inspections on Fire Ball were up to date and a state permit was issued for the ride on Wednesday, the fair’s opening day.

Ohio Department of Agriculture records showed passing marks on inspections of about three dozen items, including possible cracks, brakes, proper assembly and installation.

All rides at the fair are checked several times when they are being set up to ensure the work is done the way the manufacturer intended, said Agriculture Director David Daniels.

Michael Vartorella, Ohio’s chief inspector of amusement ride safety, said the Fire Ball was inspected three or four times before the fair opened. He said that some work on all the rides was delayed by heavy rains last week but that the inspections were completed and not rushed.

Col. Paul Pride of the State Highway Patrol said inspectors are “basically going to do an autopsy on that machine” to figure out why it malfunctioned.

“I can’t tell you with a matter of certainty how many days or weeks this will take,” he said.

Amusements of America, the company that provides rides to the Ohio fair, said it is committed to working with investigators to determine the cause. It said Fire Ball had been checked by its staff and independent inspectors before the fair opened.

Fire Ball swings 24 riders back and forth like a pendulum 40 feet above the ground while they sit in four-seat carriages that spin at 13 revolutions a minute, according to the company’s website.

The ride’s manufacturer, KMG, said the one at the Ohio fair was built in 1998 in the Netherlands. Forty-three of the rides, also known as the Afterburner, are in use around the world, 11 of them in the U.S., according to KMG. None has had a serious malfunction before, the company said in an email to the AP. Related Articles Romney OKs voting on court nominee, all but assures approval

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After the accident, fairs in California, New Jersey and Canada shut down similar rides before the company issued its order.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is also investigating. It estimates there were 30,900 injuries associated with amusement attractions last year that required an emergency room visit.

It said there have been at least 22 deaths associated with amusement attractions in the U.S. since 2010.

The Ohio State Fair, which remained open Thursday, is one of the biggest state fairs in the U.S. It drew 900,000 people last year.

“Our hearts are heavy for the families of those involved in last night’s tragic accident,” fair officials said on Twitter.

Reports from Associated Press were used in this story.