New York – On Wednesday night, when an amateur went over the railing and fell from the fence Clemente more than six meters high to the right garden of PNC Park in Pittsburgh, the terrifying image evoked memories of spectators who have died for similar events in other stages of the major leagues.
Kavan Markwood was in critical condition on Thursday after falling on the warning’s warning track, just when Andrew McCutchen, the pirates star, hit a two-run double in the seventh entrance to put Pittsburgh forward by 4-3.
Markwood was treated for approximately five minutes by pirates and puppies staff, as well as by stadium doctors, before being removed from the field in a cart. He was taken to the Trauma Center of Allegheny General Hospital.
Pittsburgh Public Safety, a dependency that includes the Pittsburgh Police and the Medical Emergency Service, published Thursday in X that the “fact is being treated as accidental by nature.”
Fans died after Falls pronounced in stages of Arlington, Texas, in 2011 and Atlanta, in 2015.
Here is a look at some security measures implemented by the MLB and its equipment:
Railings in the stadiums
The railing heights in the stadiums are determined by the teams based on local laws and codes. The railing that runs along the Clemente fence has a height of 91.44 centimeters (36 inches), which exceeds the requirements of the Construction Code of 66.04 centrimeters (26 inches), according to the vice president of communications of the pirates, Brian Warecki.
Those heights of the railings have been subject to review in other stadiums after the death of some spectators. The Rangers raised the height of the railings of the front row in their old stadium up to 30.48 centimeters (12 inches), reaching 1.06 meters (42 inches) in July 2011, after an amateur named Shannon Stone fell more than six meters.
The Braves of Atlanta resolved a lawsuit in 2018 with the family of Gregory Murrey, who died three years before, falling from the upper roof of Turner Field. Murrey left on a railing that had 76 centimeters (30 inches) high; The industry code standards demanded 66.04 centimeters (26 inches) or more.
Foul ball networks
Until 2015, many stadiums had networks that separated the fans from the field only directly behind the dish. After several incidents that season in which the fans were hospitalized after being beaten by Foul balls, the major leagues encouraged the teams to extend the networks or screens to cover another behind the home of Home in December 2015.
Three years later, the 30 stages had networks that reached the extremes of each cave.
In 2019, a 2 -year -old girl fractured the skull when beaten by a Foul ball at the Houston stars. The club then reached an agreement with the girl’s family.
In the recess prior to the following season the major announced that seven teams would expand the protective networks to the Foul posts and another 15 would generally expand them to the area in the garden where the stands begin to move away from the field.
The remaining eight clubs had already installed networks that extended substantially beyond the end of the dugout.
Sale of alcohol
The MLB does not impose limits for the sale of alcohol, but most clubs have stopped selling it around the end of the seventh ticket for years. After new rules aimed at increasing the rhythm of the game, they led to shortest -lasting meetings in 2023, several clubs extended the sale of alcohol until the end of the eighth entrance. Many of these teams have returned to the limit of the seventh.
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This story was translated from English by an AP editor with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool.
