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 club’s official social media accounts, a crew was working to assemble to structure when something went wrong, causing it to become “uncontrollably transformed and twisted.” Sport.ru reported that the cube fell as it was being lifted up when one of the winches holding it broke.
The structure, shaped like a cube and intended to have screens on its four outward-facing sides, collapsed to the ground, landing on at least one worker. The man, a senior foreman for the project, was injured but is expected to make a full recovery.
[Thomas Kika/Newsweek – original article]
[Hockeyfeed – second article]
[Picture – Hockeyfeed/Karl Månsson/Twitter]
