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How a Beast Games crew member was nearly crushed on set: I don't want to die

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How a 'Beast Games' crew member was nearly crushed on set: 'I don't want to die'

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workers had been disassembling the tower above him, and a dislodged section had fallen and sliced his left shoulder. He spent eight days in the hospital, where doctors removed his spleen and performed reconstructive surgery on his shoulder. He suffered a lung contusion, a hemothorax, and damage to his ribs, scapula, spine, and clavicle, medical records show. He said that it took months of physical therapy to regain use of his arm
Jesus, sounds like gross negligence to me
- Their justifications is that he was "technically in an area that he shouldn't have been in" even though he and his supervisor both confirmed that they were never told not to be there and that they had zero signage or cones up to inform people of the danger.
  I guess they expect their employees to have ESP and just know these things without having to tell any of them.
  
  My takeaway is that although this show is the most expensive reality show of all time, they are still negligently cutting corners
- And apparently he can't sue because he took a payment from an insurance company of some sort. Sounds like a dumb Canada thing.
An uber gift card!? What the actual fuck
- A person close to the production said that it was something he'd asked for and that he was repeatedly offered other forms of support. Sam said he didn't remember asking for the gift cards and was underwhelmed.
  I don't know what to make of this
  
  He spent eight days in the hospital, where doctors removed his spleen and performed reconstructive surgery on his shoulder. He suffered a lung contusion, a hemothorax, and damage to his ribs, scapula, spine, and clavicle, medical records show.
  That is an "emergency surgery and massive quantities of pain meds" list of injuries. Honestly wondering if they purposely chose to discuss forms of support while the poor bastard was still higher than upside down bird pussy.
  
  Gaslighting narcissists are likely to repeatedly gaslight under any circumstances, including where a more reasonable person would not do that
  
  Dude was probably on an arsenal of mind altering drugs the moment they wheeled him into the ER, so I don't find it surprising at all. People do and say all kinds of kooky stuff when recovering from anesthesia without remembering it.
Don't support non union productions.
Once upon a time I did stagehand work like this. If you have riggers or personal working over head, you need clear lines of communication open. Someone should have been calling the drop of set prieces, and the ground crew should have been responsible for catching the lowered sections and keeping other crew out of the way. Also, the ground cables should have been pulled first, to protect them from damage as the set comes out.
Nothing about this sounds like it was done correctly! The lead carpender and scenic lead should have been all over this! You have heavy metal parts coming out of the air and no one was even calling it!!?? Probably didn't even have radios. This was 100% preventable.

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