{"id":484369,"date":"2019-04-06T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=818679"},"modified":"2019-04-06T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T21:50:00","slug":"coachella-worker-dies-in-fall-at-festival-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/coachella-worker-dies-in-fall-at-festival-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Coachella Worker Dies in Fall at Festival Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/9112588a.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>One week before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/childish-gambino-tame-impala-ariana-grande-coachella-2019-headliners-774394\/\">Coachella 2019 begins<\/a>, a worker constructing a stage at the Indio, California festival site fell to their death.<\/p>\n<p>The Indio Police Department confirmed the accident to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.com\/story\/news\/local\/indio\/2019\/04\/06\/worker-dies-after-fall-coachella-staging-site-empire-polo-club-indio\/3387726002\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Desert Sun<\/em><\/a>, adding that the still-unnamed worker in the staging area of the festival grounds fell and died at the scene. Indio police are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The Riverside County Fire Department tweeted soon after the accident that someone suffered a \u201ctraumatic injury\u201d after they \u201cfell from a roof and perished at the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.63967611336\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Traumatic Injury: RPT @ 9:26 a.m. \u2013 Monroe St. X Ave 50 in Indio. Victim fell from a roof and perished at the scene. Indio PD investigating. BC, 1 ENG, 1 TRK, 1 INDIO MEDIC UNIT. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MonroeINCIDENT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#MonroeINCIDENT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CAL FIRE Riverside (@CALFIRERRU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CALFIRERRU\/status\/1114577559360950272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">April 6, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>TMZ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2019\/04\/06\/coachella-stagehand-dies-setting-up-festival-fall\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that eyewitnesses saw the worker, a man who was climbing the stage scaffolding, fall approximately 60 feet, and that a safety harness was not attached at the time of the accident; it\u2019s unclear whether the worker was wearing a safety harness when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/coachella\/\" id=\"auto-tag_coachella\" data-tag=\"coachella\">Coachella<\/a> organizers Goldenvoice did not respond to <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s request for comment at press time. The festival has not addressed the accident on social media.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/coachella-worker-dead-fall-818679\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One week before Coachella 2019 begins, a worker constructing a stage at the Indio, California festival site fell to their death. The Indio Police Department confirmed the accident to the Desert Sun, adding that the still-unnamed worker in the staging area of the festival grounds fell and died at the scene. 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