Four draft standards are available for public review and comment on the ESTA website at http://estalink.us/pr. The downloads are free. Please note the comment due dates, which are not all the same. The documents in public review are: BSR E1.76, Tensioned Wire Grids, covers the design and application criteria for wire-rope tension grids, including the [...]

Rapper Post Malone bruised his ribs when he fell through a hole on stage during a performance in St. Louis over the weekend, his manager said. Post Malone, 27, whose real name is Austin Richard Post, was performing at the Enterprise Center downtown on Saturday when he fell mid-song. Video on social media appeared to [...]

One man died and at least 40 others were injured when high winds caused parts of a stage to collapse at a festival in Spain early on Saturday. Footage showed some festivalgoers running in panic, while others are seen continuing to party at the event in Cullera, south of Valencia. The popular Medusa Festival of [...]

A structural mishap led to the collapse of a video monitor at a Russian ice rink, injuring a worker. The incident took place on Monday at the Arena-2000 venue in Yaroslavl, a city in western Russia, northeast of Moscow. The venue is owned by the local hockey club, Lokomotiv, and according to one of the [...]

BLUMANO, engineering consultancy and advisers for safety and stage machinery design, is proud to announce its expansion with BLUMANO Deutschland. This base, located in the heart of Western Europe, will work closely with BLUMANO’s network of offices in Ireland, the UK, Italy, South Korea and the Netherlands. Laura van Haperen joins this progressive organisation and brings impressive [...]

Machine Gun Kelly noticeably stammered when the prop helicopter that flies him onto the stage at the start of his touring arena show experienced some turbulence on Sunday (July 3) in Detroit. The faux aircraft seemingly hit a bump on its pre-determined track and jostled the airborne entertainer as he performed high above the crowd. [...]

Mirror fans wait for answers on why giant TV screen broke free and crashed onto concert dancers Chief Executive John Lee orders special task force to investigate the incident in bid to prevent similar tragedies Tens of thousands of Mirror fans remain angry and upset several days after a massive video screen fell onto the [...]

Blumano will be going to PLASA this year. Come join us! The PLASA Show returns to the iconic Olympia London from 4-6 September 2022. The flagship event for entertainment technology will showcase technological advancements from the worlds of audio, AV, lighting, rigging and staging. Plus, a market-leading programme will deliver back-to-back keynotes and workshops to [...]

A worker reportedly died while breaking down the stage after Psy's 'Summer Swag 2022' concert in Gangwon Province. According to multiple media reports, on July 31 at 3:52 PM KST, a Mongolian man in his twenties fell 20 meters (~22 yards) as he worked on removing a light tower that had previously been installed for [...]

Rapper Lil Durk says he is taking time off to recover after being injured by a pyrotechnic at the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago. The 29-year-old was playing to a crowd of thousands when a smoke bomb went off in his face on Saturday night. In fan-captured video, he was seen staggering backwards from the device [...]