Thanks for re-sharing this story today, I wasn't a subscriber when you first made it. One of the latest examples of permanent stands collapsing I've come across (though the search is admittedly not exhaustive) was at Richmond's Mayo Island Park / Tate Field, which had the stands collapse on 10/22/1927 while hosting a game between Maryland and VMI when the crowd stood up to cheer. Amazingly, no one perished, though 100+ injuries were reported. I mostly bring it up because the American Lumberman trade magazine wrote a pretty thorough investigation into what caused the failure. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015080321485&seq=528
Thanks for re-sharing this story today, I wasn't a subscriber when you first made it. One of the latest examples of permanent stands collapsing I've come across (though the search is admittedly not exhaustive) was at Richmond's Mayo Island Park / Tate Field, which had the stands collapse on 10/22/1927 while hosting a game between Maryland and VMI when the crowd stood up to cheer. Amazingly, no one perished, though 100+ injuries were reported. I mostly bring it up because the American Lumberman trade magazine wrote a pretty thorough investigation into what caused the failure. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015080321485&seq=528
Thank you.