After a year of investigation, charges have been laid in connection with the collapse of an outdoor stage last summer that killed a man just hours before Radiohead was to play in front of 40,000 people at Downsview Park.
Live Nation Canada, Live Nation Ontario and Optex Staging and Services have each received four charges in connection with the collapse, related to a failure to ensure the stage’s structural integrity. Engineer Domenic Cugliari, of Bolton, Ont., was charged with endangering a worker as a result of negligence.
British experimental rock band Radiohead was scheduled to play the Downsview stage on June 16 last year when the stage crashed down at about 4 p.m. The venue had not yet opened to the concertgoers at the time of the top portion of the stage fell, injuring three of the band’s crew and crushing 33-year-old drum technician Scott Johnson of South Yorkshire, England.
The collapse was sudden and unexpected; unlike previous stage collapses in Ottawa and Alberta during windy storms, the weather that day was fine.
“It was a very complex investigation,” said Ontario Labour ministry spokesperson Matt Blajer.
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