{"id":794741,"date":"2019-04-11T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=821165"},"modified":"2019-04-11T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T19:07:00","slug":"radiohead-new-safety-recommendations-needed-after-stage-collapse-inquest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/radiohead-new-safety-recommendations-needed-after-stage-collapse-inquest\/","title":{"rendered":"Radiohead: New Safety Recommendations Needed After Stage Collapse Inquest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Radiohead<\/a> called for new safety recommendations in order to prevent stage collapses similar to the one that killed their drum tech, Scott Johnson, in Toronto in 2012. The statement, posted on Twitter<\/a>, arrived after an inquest into Johnson\u2019s death concluded Wednesday<\/a>, with a five-person jury producing a set of 28 non-binding recommendations regarding safety and oversight rules for building temporary stages in Ontario.<\/p>\n

\u201cA verdict of Accidental Death was returned, which feels frustratingly insufficient given that the stage collapse was shown to be preventable,\u201d Radiohead said. \u201cThe Jury have made sound and practical recommendations to prevent such an accident happening again and to ensure the future safety of show crews and audiences. It\u2019s up to all of us now to make sure that these recommendations are implemented.\u201d<\/p>\n

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pic.twitter.com\/VDv4BEZwrz<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Radiohead (@radiohead) April 11, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The inquest was opened<\/a> by Ontario\u2019s chief coroner in March and featured statements and testimony from Radiohead drummer Phil Selway and Johnson\u2019s father, Ken Johnson. The results of the inquest marked the end of a long and often difficult fight for justice and accountability.<\/p>\n

Johnson was killed in June 2012<\/a> prior to Radiohead\u2019s performance at Toronto\u2019s Downsview Park when a piece of outdoor structure fell and crushed him (three others were hurt in the incident). In 2013, the Ontario Ministry of Labour charged<\/a> the concert\u2019s promoter, Live Nation Canada, as well as the scaffolding company Optex Staging and Services and engineer Domenic Cugliari under the province\u2019s Occupational Health and Safety Act. Live Nation has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

The case went to trial, but was plagued by delays, taking over 14 months, at the end of which, the presiding judge was appointed to a higher court, effectively negating his jurisdiction and leading to a mistrial<\/a>. Then, in 2017, a new judge officially stayed the charges<\/a>, citing Canada\u2019s new trial time restrictions, which were established in 2016 and state that cases in provincial court should go to trial within 18 months.<\/p>\n

Radiohead repeatedly voiced their frustration with the case as the delays mounted. After the case was officially stayed, the band said they were \u201cappalled by the decision\u201d and called it \u201can insult to the memory of Scott Johnson, his parents and our crew.\u201d During a July 2018 concert<\/a> in Toronto \u2014 the band\u2019s first in the city since the 2012 stage collapse \u2014 frontman Thom Yorke said, \u201cThe people who should be held accountable are still not being held accountable in your city. The silence is fucking deafening.\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Radiohead called for new safety recommendations in order to prevent stage collapses similar to the one that killed their drum tech, Scott Johnson, in Toronto in 2012. The statement, posted on Twitter, arrived after an inquest into Johnson\u2019s death concluded Wednesday, with a five-person jury producing a set of 28 non-binding recommendations regarding safety and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-794741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 05:30:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}