Escalator Accident Rockies Game

Rome mayor virginia raggi said witnesses reported people were jumping and dancing on the escalator before the accident.

Escalator accident rockies game. Escalators at coors field were shut down thursday after an apparent malfunction the night before sent hundreds of baseball fans tumbling three stories causing 31 injuries. All seven escalators at the stadium. A woman who lost her left leg when an escalator at coors field malfunctioned filed a lawsuit wednesday against the colorado rockies the baseball stadium district and the company that manufactured. The accident was similar to one that occurred in july 2003 at denver s coors field.

Escalator injures 16 at coors field published 8 00 pm edt wednesday july 2 2003 sixteen people were injured when an escalator suddenly accelerated at coors field after a colorado rockies game. The colorado rockies shut down all their stadium escalators for thursday s night s game one day after a three story high escalator apparently malfunctioned and tossed dozens of screaming baseball. On may 24 another escalator at coors field stopped abruptly during a game leaving 12. Rockies vice president of baseball operations kevin kahn confirms the accident was the second involving an escalator at coors field within the past few weeks.

Rockies spokesman jay alvis said the witness accounts about the device speeding up had not been confirmed. The escalator at coors field that collapsed in july sending rockies fans hurtling down from the field s third deck was caused when one piece of equipment malfunctioned and a second braking sensor.