Stay Nation Leisure, the live performance promoter that organized the tragic Astroworld Pageant, has been cited a couple of dozen occasions for quite a few questions of safety, data present.
Information on the Occupational Security and Well being Administration web site exhibits that Stay Nation has been fined or sued on quite a lot of points over the previous decade, together with an incident in 2018 when somebody was struck within the head by a six-foot size metallic submit and needed to be hospitalized.
In one other incident in 2012, an worker died after falling by a “false ceiling” on a stage. The particular person wasn’t carrying any security belts or different safety.
Stay Nation is a live performance promoter, venue operator and the proprietor of Ticketmaster. In line with its web site, it sells 500 million tickets to live shows and festivals annually. Shares dropped greater than 6% Monday.
“Heartbroken for these misplaced and impacted at Astroworld final night time,” Stay Nation, the corporate answerable for organizing the Astroworld Pageant, stated in a earlier assertion. “We’ll proceed working to offer as a lot data and help as doable to the native authorities as they examine the state of affairs.”
A lawsuit has been filed towards rapper and producer Travis Scott, who was the organizer of the competition, in addition to Stay Nation. A jury trial is most popular to find out the precise quantity of damages, in accordance with the lawsuit, however Manuel Souza, who attended the live performance, is searching for “financial reduction of over US$1,000,000.”
Eight individuals died and lots of had been injured after members of a densely packed crowd surged towards a stage and had been crushed towards one another on the Houston music competition Friday night time. About 50,000 individuals had been on the sold-out Astroworld Pageant at NRG Park. Police are at present investigating what triggered the surge.
