Past Incidents

AV Technician falls two stories from scaffolding at Boston hotel

a scaffold about two floors above the floor at the time of the accident.
“He was doing some work concerning running some wire in the balcony,” Edmund Hassan, Boston EMS Deputy Superintendent said. “Apparently he lost his footing on the balcony and fell to the floor below.”

Ryan Lipman

fell off of the arch structure below while doing preparation work for the 2015 Super Bowl.

Cirque du Soleil Acrobat Death Sarah Guillot-Guyard 6/29/13

Sarah Guillot-Guyard, 31, 2 young children. Cirque du Soleil t Kà was using a certain kind of wire rope to lift people—despite the fact that several manufacturers explicitly warned against using it for such a purpose. three violations of NRS and Nevada OSHA General Industry Standard 1910.

Sugarland: COA: Stage collapses not foreseeable as a matter of law

The company hired to provide security to country duo Sugarland on the night of the deadly stage collapse at the 2011 Indiana State Fair could not have reasonably foreseen the stage collapse as a matter of law and, thus, is entitled to summary judgment, the Indiana Court of Appeals held Tuesday. The appellate court decision moves the state closer to the end of the last of several lawsuits filed against nearly three dozen defendants in the aftermath of the accident that killed seven concertgoers.