For four weekends in June, thousands of people transform the Clackamas County Fairgrounds in Canby into a storybook village called the Vale of Dunrose.
More than 75,000 guests visited the Vale of Dunrose for the Oregon Renaissance Faire this summer, where they chowed down on roasted turkey legs, shopped among 150 merchants selling fantasy-themed wares, watched shows like full-contact jousting and evening fire dances, and posed as the storybook character of their dreams, backed by the two-story castle façade. History buffs, cosplayers and fans of literature, movies and video games all let their geek flags fly freely over the faux-Scottish village.
But Oregon Occupational Safety and Health, Oregon OSHA for short, also visited the Vale of Dunrose this year. What it found there was less than magical: six safety violations, three of them classified as serious…