Well that's interesting. It could be a problem with the rigging of the roof or it could have nothing to do with the stagehands and be a failure on one of the cranes or a crane operator operators. Not really a stage collapse either... it's really more crane falling over and taking out everything in it's path.Firefighters said the accident occurred when the roof of the stage became unbalanced as it was being lifted by four cranes.
It toppled one of the cranes which fell crashing onto the structure below.
........The Fire Department is part of the NAVY? Oh those wacky French.
I was just mentioning to my Dad (78 years old, retired, gold card, local 720) how FEW tragedies of this nature we have seen in all the years we have been around. Sad, but, because we know it CAN happen, and what is at stake, is why those of us that do/did rigging take it so seriously.
Few deaths but there have been plenty roofs and other ground support structures that have gone over. Most of the time they are kept quite because the company does not want the events to be made public. Just because there are no injuries doesn't make it less serous it just means people were lucky. Ground support is a very tricky animal, take the same system with the same loads to a different area and you need to re-engineer the whole system. Differences in soil composition, wind exposure, and guy wire restrictions means there is no such thing as a plug and play ground support rig.
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