Risk management controls also are essential for major events such as the Olympics see related story. Williams said. As stages and other structures at events can be massive in size and risk, municipal authorities also will be taking a closer look at safety requirements, said Bill DesPres, Atlanta-based risk engineer with Zurich Services Corp.
However, stages such as the one that collapsed at the Indiana State Fair are not considered structures, and there are no requirements to inspect them, Mr. DesPres said. For example, when new codes are introduced for approval by municipalities, the adoption time causes codes to be implemented in or , Mr. In the wake of the recent stage collapses, concerns about social media have added a new spectrum to event liability risks, said Lori Shaw, director of sports and leisure in the entertainment practice group at Aon Risk Solutions in Charlotte, N.
With the upcoming U. Shaw said, referring to the ongoing series of demonstrations by the Occupy movement in Oakland, Calif. In preparation for the G8 and NATO summits in Chicago in May, city officials and law enforcement agencies have begun to brief property, retail and business owners about increased and comprehensive security measures to address potential violent demonstrations. Many property managers, schools, and businesses are drawing up emergency and crisis plans to deal with any violence, property damage and safety, according Crain's Chicago Business, a sister publication of Business Insurance.
In this context, social media outlets are a platform that enables a large mass of people to communicate and organize. The representative with the local stage-hands union confirmed that Byrd was among the spotlight operators that were up in the rigging when the stage collapsed.
Bursten said the injuries to some other victims are so severe that the death toll could rise. He did not know how many of the victims were fans and how many were crew members. The collapse happened about p. The National Weather Service said winds estimated at 60 to 70 mph buffeted the stage ahead of a line of severe thunderstorms. A severe thunderstorm warning had been issued for Marion County before the collapse.
David Lindquist, a reporter for the Indianapolis Star who was there to cover the concert, told WRTV that an announcement was made that weather was moving in about two minutes before the winds kicked up, but those in front of the stage had little time to get out of the weather, if they wanted to do so. There were preparations in progress in anticipation of a severe storm arriving around ," Bursten said. They have done an extraordinary job of providing help with production of our free stages and also our grandstand," said Hoye, who was backstage at the time of the collapse.
Mitch Daniels called the collapse a "freakish accident" and praised the response as instantaneous and highly professional. People don't have to do paid to do it. An on-site emergency center was set up at the fairgrounds immediately after the collapse. Other people at the concert converged on the collapsed stage in the immediate aftermath, trying to pull the injured from beneath the mangled wreckage. Everyone had froze," said Jason Scofield, who was at the concert. People ran to escape the collapse, but they tripped over each other as the stage came down, another witness told 6News.
The stage hit me. The investigations of this summer's collapses are ongoing, but it appears the common thread that ties them together—as well as those from previous summers—is intense wind events. In such instances, luck often determines just how catastrophic a collapse might be, but sound decision-making and accurate weather watching also play crucial roles. In July, Cheap Trick took the stage in Ottawa during a severe thunderstorm warning.
Twenty minutes into the show, according to CBC reporter and eyewitness Stuart Mills , "a giant gust of wind picked up a tarp and garbage from across the field and flung it toward the audience and lifted the whole stage—where Cheap Trick had been playing—and almost like a convertible in a car, just folded it backwards.
Remarkably, the stage in Ottawa fell backward, away from the attending crowd. Like their counterparts in Ottawa, officials at the Indiana State Fair chose to commence the night's program in spite of severe weather warnings. Jason Puma, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's forecast office in Indianapolis, says his office issued a severe thunderstorm watch for central Indiana around 6 pm , and upgraded it to a severe thunderstorm warning at , just 10 minutes before the stage collapsed.
We talked to them via phone, probably about once an hour at the top of the hour to ask us 'what do you think now? Their decision, of course, was to commence with the show—the country music duo Sugarland was preparing to take the stage when it all fell down. When asked by PM, a spokesman said the fair has no official comment while the investigations go on, but that organizers were "anxious to see all of the details come out. That was a serious misjudgment.
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