A worker fell from a 2-meter-high stage and lost consciousness as he was dismantling Taiwanese rock band MayDay’s concert stage at the Central harbourfront on Friday morning. Police said they received the report at around 5.30 am that the 21-year-old worker slipped from the stage and fell from a height of about two meters. He [...]
A carnival ride worker was killed when he fell on a spinning amusement ride in the Chamizal Park in Juárez during the Easter holiday weekend, municipal authorities said. The worker appeared to be standing in a speeding car of a mechanical ride named the "Rockola Rodante," which means the "Rolling Jukebox", when he fell off [...]
A crew member working on the new Marvel TV series Wonder Man has died on set after an accident on a high walkway. The incident took place at the Radford Studio Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Filming was not occurring at the time. The man was identified by the coroner as 41-year-old Juan Osorio, [...]
A TECH boss has plunged to his death during his firm's celebrations as horror footage captured his final moments alive. Sanjay Shah, CEO of US-based company Vistex, was making a grand performance in an iron cage before part of the chain supporting the structure snapped. The freak accident took place at Ramoji Film City in [...]
Cristiano Giavedoni will participate in a panel to discuss the overcoming challenges with LED screens and moving columns. A behind-the-scenes look at the engineering stage machinery of Eurovision 2023. Join us at ISE - CC4.1 on the 01 Feb 2024 at 14:45 - 16:00 https://www.iseurope.org/ise-2024-conference-programme/avl-summit24-afial
The 200ft ride is described as the ‘tallest, longest and fastest in the Southern Hemisphere’ and stopped just as it was about to reach one of the highest points of the track. Thrillseekers found themselves stuck at the top of one of the tallest rollercoasters in the world for several hours after a scarf became [...]
Action stunt doubles are the professionals most exposed to accidents in the film industry. A paradigmatic example of this danger is David Holmes, Harry Potter’s stunt double in the eight films of the saga. This specialist, who replaced Daniel Radcliffe in risky scenes, was paralyzed for life after an accident. David Holmes had been Harry [...]
Singer Marisa Monte's show that was scheduled to take place on Saturday night in Niterói was canceled due to bad weather. The stage where the artist was to perform collapsed. "Adverse and atypical weather conditions, including very strong winds and a lightning storm, caused the collapse of the structure of the stage set up on [...]
A production company has been fined after a stunt performer was injured during the filming of Fast and Furious 9: The Fast Saga. Joe Watts, from Surrey, sustained life-changing injuries after he fell approximately 25 feet at Warner Bros. studios in Leavesden, Hertfordshire on 22 July 2019. He had been filming a fight scene for [...]
Jonathan Goodwin, a stuntman and contestant on “America’s Got Talent,” reportedly filed a lawsuit against NBC for their alleged failure to implement industry safety standards, which allegedly led to Goodwin’s gruesome injuries. Goodwin alleges NBC cut corners on safety, allegedly leading to his near-death accident, according to TMZ. In the lawsuit, Goodwin reportedly claims NBC [...]
