9 hospitalized – including 6 minors – after press box collapsed during Indiana softball tournament
Nine hospitalized – including six minors – after press box collapsed during Indiana softball tournament
- Six Wayne High School students and three adults were injured on Saturday after a press box collapsed in the middle of the game around 1:30 p.m.
- Two students – including Addison Perkins – were taken to hospital for life. Addison has since been released
- It’s unclear exactly what caused the floor of the press box to collapse, but police believe it had something to do with the “faulty fixing of the floor beam.”
Nine people have been hospitalized after a press box collapsed on a high school softball field in Indiana.
Six Wayne High School students and three adults were injured on Saturday after a press box collapsed in the middle of the game around 1:30 p.m.
It’s unclear what exactly caused the floor of the press box to collapse, but police believe it had something to do with the “lack of fixing the floor beams.” DailyMail.com has contacted the Wayne Volunteer Fire Department for comment.
The spectators and players were, according to the press, under the press box when the floor collapsed WOWK TV.
Two students – including Addison Perkins – were taken to hospital for life. Addison has since been released. It is not clear what the condition of the other student is.
Six Wayne High School students and three adults were injured on Saturday after a press box collapsed in the middle of the game around 1:30 p.m.
Two students – including Addison Perkins (pictured) – were taken to hospital for life. Addison has since been released. It is not clear what the condition of the other student is.
Addison’s mother Brittany Leigh Perkins said on Facebook that her daughter was “released and just discharged and has to attend a concussion clinic two days later.”
“We still have MANY girls and adults out there and they all need a lot of prayer,” she wrote.
A freelance photographer, who was at the game, also shared a photo on Facebook showing the uninjured players from the boys’ and girls’ teams waiting in hospital to see if their teammates would be okay.
The fire department expressed their support on Facebook, writing, “Wayne Fire Dept. would like to extend our prayers to the Wayne Middle School softball team and members of the Wayne community involved in the ballfield today.”
The boys and girls teams sat in the hospital waiting room to show support as their parents and teammates were treated