Someone does this at pretty much every theme/amusement park. Is a $20-30 hat that serious?
It's not even just guests - when Maelstrom was opening and having ride problems a manager went in to the upper scenes to make sure the boats were going through properly - while it was running. He fell into the flume, had this leg torn open by the mechanical equipment, and because he knew getting sucked into the next scene with the track switch pretty much meant death, he pulled himself out of the flume (barely) and then laid on the side of the track in the show scene bleeding everywhere as guest boats went by. No one went to help him until guests at Unload told the CMs he was up there.
This isn't some myth story - this is directly told to me by the person it happened to.