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Home » Stage Safety » Accidents
AccidentsExamples of accidents caused by structural collapse when overload prevention systems were not installed. Structural collapses occur mainly due to overload, or sometimes overload combined with extreme weather conditions
Katowice (Poland) Convention Center roof collapse 28 January 2006
Hanging load together with the load of the snow on the roof caused a roof collapse and 65 people died in the collapse; many more were wounded
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katowice_Trade_Hall_roof_collapse http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4658214.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/4658892.stm http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/01/29/roof.collapse/index.html Christina Aguilera Justin Timberlake Truss collapse Atlantic City NJ August 2003
Three stagehands were injured. Almost everyone left for dinner minutes before the collapse.
The show was cancelled. The estimated $1 million in damage to the tour's equipment has put
the entire tour on hold.
  Heineken Jammin' (Italy) Festival rig collapse June 2007  Texas Stadium  Rieu Accident April 2004  Atlanta GA (Philips Arena) January 2008  Ozzie truss bender (Australia) May 2008  Montego Bay May 2005  Greenfield Festival 2005  Las Vegas Truss Collapse - Industrial Show 2005   Comstock   Chicago Auto Show 2006 - Truss failure  Can Cun collapse 2005  Pretoria stage collapse August 2003  Truss collapse at Miss Kansas Pageant June 2008  Stage collapse at Rocklahoma 12 July 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdXgIOaEaaA http://www.newson6.com/global/video/flash/popupplayer.asp?clipId1=2686434&at1=Ne http://www.newson6.com Atlanta GA stage collapse (Akon) October 2007  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
