URIAH HEEP: Comments On RADIOHEAD Crew Member's Death In Stage Collapse

Legendary British hard rock warriors URIAH HEEP have commented on the 6/16/2012 stage collapse that took the life of RADIOHEAD technician/crew member SCOTT JOHNSON. A portion of the stage fell at DOWNSVIEW PARK, TORONTO, CANADA instantly killing JOHNSON and injuring three other people.
 Acorrding to the BBC, a team of inspectors and engineers have begun searching through the still unstable wreckage to try and establish what caused the stage to collapse.


FROM URIAH HEEP:
 "were all saddened to hear the news from Canada that Scott Johnson has died while working on the RADIOHEAD tour. Scott had previously been a member of the URIAH HEEP technical crew, and we all recognized Scott's consummate professionalism, and cheerful disposition, as he effortlessly dealt with life on the road. We are gutted, and our thoughts are with Scott's friends and family."



FROM YOU TUBER: YHORGAMEX

 built and supervised stage construction for years; I'd never sign off on my crew building a stage with that design. ~60' span of pin in ring steel horizontally oriented as a roof, with an ~60'x50' tarp and lighting attached... that's just plain stupid.

It looks like a Mountain Steel stage, I wonder if it was theirs.

I can't believe they put a full roof on that stage with vertical steel. It's a faulty design, that I can see from a lousy camera shot well away from the structure. The type of stage material they used is designed for vertical builds, not a full horizontal unsupported roof. The pins can easily come loose with this steel. They should have used truss to span the roof, but they likely were cutting corners because a truck was delayed, someone didn't order the truss, or they were cutting costs/corners


VIDEO BELOW: RADIOHEAD (DOWNSVIEW PARK) TORONTO, CANADA STAGE COLLAPSE: 



Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-BE SAFE-\m/ -l-