Overview
- A technician installing the Copacabana beach stage suffered crushing leg injuries in a lifting system Sunday and later died at a Rio hospital, authorities and organizers said.
- Co-workers freed the man before emergency teams arrived, and a maritime ambulance crew treated him and took him to Miguel Couto Municipal Hospital.
- The Rio state fire brigade said he was trapped in a stage hoist and confirmed the death, and promoter Bonus Track issued condolences and support to his employer and family.
- The free Shakira concert remains set for Saturday, May 2, after weeks of construction for a show that reporters say could draw a very large crowd.
- An eyewitness described a structure on the sand collapsing and people rushing to pull the worker out, and officials have not yet released his name.