13 WTHR: The fatal State Fair stage collapse is already making other Indy venues safer. Georgia Street will become a Super Bowl village. In the shadow of Lucas Oil stadium, tens of thousands will visit free concerts and other events there on a very big stage. But just months after the fatal State Fair stage rigging collapse, both big and smaller stages are getting the city's attention.
Wednesday, November 09, 2011
City moves to ensure stage safety
13 WTHR: The fatal State Fair stage collapse is already making other Indy venues safer. Georgia Street will become a Super Bowl village. In the shadow of Lucas Oil stadium, tens of thousands will visit free concerts and other events there on a very big stage. But just months after the fatal State Fair stage rigging collapse, both big and smaller stages are getting the city's attention.
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I think making stages rated for wind is a good idea, although a little expensive. Once more places require the rating it will be a non-issue, but at this point, I only hope it does not hurt potential touring business. Also I think perhaps the evacuation distance is not quite far enough. If you are 75 feet downwind of a 50 foot structure and wind has blown over the structure, what makes people believe that the wind would not be able to continue moving the structure? Hopefully this will not be found out and I certainly think it is a step in the right direction as far as evacuation.
I'm fairly certain that these knew rules have been created after being thoroughly discussed by experts on the topic. These changes needed to be done. It is so sad that in this technologically savy world of ours tragedies like the State Fair collapse have to occur because of technicalities or under estimated safety features. I truly hope that with the changes events like that never have to happen again.
It amazes me a little that precautions such as this were not already in place. I feel that all cities should think things like this through and institute similar policies. I know that it might be a little more of a pain for the production company, and it may mean having to stop or postpone performances which can cost a lot of money, but I think that is a fair price to pay for safety. Hopefully this will prompt investigation into safer practices for building temporary stages in rough weather environments.
It is great to hear that places close to this stage collapse this summer are putting many more safety regulations in to make sure that everyone is safe and no one dies in the coming shows. I wish we could hear about places that are father away taking more precautions and hearing about them in the news. I know that this problem is though out the country and needs to be fixed now to make sure that everyone is safe. If we are hearing all of this news about this collapse lets hear about worldwide changes that have occurred because of it. I am wondering how much longer till we will hear of another collapse of a stage either not hurting anyone or hurting other people.
This article doesn't give as much information as I might hope, but it does sound heartening that they seem to be focused more on administrative plan than trying to understand the engineering of temporary structures. If the move was to require building inspectors to check on these stages based on codes that apply to permanent construction, the result might be that there were no more shows, or at least none under stages. Instead it sounds like they've pointed to making sure that someone is in charge of making the call and being reachable for it. Hopefully by focusing on the administrative, not the technical they can prevent some of the mistakes that came up this summer without interfering with business that wasn't a problem.
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