Indiana State Fair Stage Collapses

[blacK.eXe]

Holy shit, this is fucked up....

5 people dead by now and more than 40 injured :/

http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/58629

 

[arv_foh]

video



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http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...&type=1&theater&pid=740527&id=100001021352237

very sad that this happened and the production crew didn't make the call to bring down the roof/hangs or evacuate the stage and possible fall area

 

[Rob Logic]

wowwww, terrible.

 

[SentencedToBurn]

they should probably take that video down considering it shows people being smashed by the stage.

 

[ratsapprentice]

I'm surprised it's still up tbh

Looks like something out of a film, surreal...

 

[kaomao]

they should probably take that video down considering it shows people being smashed by the stage.

Considering all the stuff on youtube I don't think they're gonna remove it.
There all kind things on youtube: people with smashed face/victims of car crashes/autopsy and the list goes on.
This is actually not so cruel as other videos on YT.

 

[kaomao]

I'm sorry for the people attending the show, this sucks a lot!!!!!

 

[crillemannen]

Considering all the stuff on youtube I don't think they're gonna remove it.
There all kind things on youtube: people with smashed face/victims of car crashes/autopsy and the list goes on.
This is actually not so cruel as other videos on YT.

But it was pretty awful anyways :S

 

[musickey]

Indeed fucked up....i wasnt at the fair but i did get caught in that same storm front and it was some crazy shit....and im by no means a structural engineer but doesnt those truss supports look really high...considering the width of the stage?

 

[arv_foh]

Indeed fucked up....i wasnt at the fair but i did get caught in that same storm front and it was some crazy shit....and im by no means a structural engineer but doesnt those truss supports look really high...considering the width of the stage?

I've read multiple theories on why the stage collapsed but the main idea seems to be lack of support wires for the stage aka "guy wires"

http://splnetwork.com/blogs/how-we-always-do-it-not-good-enough-08142011

 

[kvoid]

From my meager experience with trussing in averse conditions (or even perfect conditions for that matter), relying solely on ballasts is suicide. I am baffled they had no bracing/harnessing of the stage itself. It is always best if these light-metal constructions are always signed off by a structural engineer but this is almost impossible to expect at most events sadly.

 

[xFkx]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14582448

Simmilar accident at pukkelpop, this is one unlucky year for open air festivals

 

[ThatGuitarGuy]

At my job we've been setting up a decent sized stage for the opening week at the college and we've gotten tons of comments about this thing and it's getting incredibly annoying.

We did rent some trusses and other items from a company and they apparently had the info on why it failed and it's just pure stupidity.

1. The stage was built over 80ft high when the legal limit is around 60ft high (ours is over 25ft high and the thought of something over three times bigger than what we have is ridiculous).
2. The tarp on top was not secured with bungie cables which give when gusts of wind hit it hard enough. They used zip ties instead which do not give very well and was very good at making a giant sail for that 70 mph wind.
3. The stakes that they put into the ground were put into wet ground...they were pointless.

Sorry, but three strikes and your out. This is seriously going to be annoying to hear comments and the potential regulations that come out of this.