A Sunday Night Football worker fell 50 feet from a scoreboard on Saturday night while doing setup for the following evening’s Green Bay Packers vs. Pittsburgh Steelers primetime NFL game. The man was rushed to the hospital in critical condition.
The fall occurred at “approximately” 10 p.m., according to information shared by Pittsburgh Public Safety. “Pittsburgh EMS, Fire and Police responded to Acrisure Stadium for reports of a male worker who had fallen from a height,” it continued.
The man is not an NBC employee, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. He was performing camera operation work “on a contractor basis,” a spokesperson for NBC Sports said.
The first responders “learned from other personnel working in the stadium” that the man had “fallen about 50 feet from the main scoreboard to a mid-level catwalk area,” per the safety office. The rescue medics and firefighters were “able to reach the patient, stabilize him and load him into a Stokes basket.” They then lowered the man “to a waiting ambulance using a rope system.”
The man “suffered severe injuries mainly to his lower extremities” and “was transported to the hospital in critical condition,” the safety office said. Detectives from Pittsburgh Police headquarters have used drones to document the scene, it continued.
THR attempted to reach the Pittsburgh Police Department for an update on the incident and investigation, but we did not immediately receive a response. Representatives for the Steelers and Acrisure Stadium and Pittsburgh Public Safety did not immediately respond to inquiries. The NBC Sports spokesperson told THR they are hoping to get an update on the man’s status today, Tuesday, Oct. 28.
It is currently unclear if the man was harnessed, and if not, why not. At the time of this writing, it is also unknown what task, specifically, the man was performing, though it appears to be related to camera work.
The Steelers home stadium used to be called Heinz Field — colloquially, the name remains active. Acrisure, which secured the naming rights in 2022, is a financial technology and insurance company headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
