TakeYouToTasker Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 An honorable death if ever I've heard of one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gugny Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 Citi Field's rails are also very short. We went to a game a few years back and had front row of one of the upper deck sections. I wouldn't let my son near the rail. I think I read the minimum height is 26". It's amazing that this doesn't happen more often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 Citi Field's rails are also very short. We went to a game a few years back and had front row of one of the upper deck sections. I wouldn't let my son near the rail. I think I read the minimum height is 26". It's amazing that this doesn't happen more often. That's amazing! 26"??? I mentioned earlier how we had to change all our's @ work to 39" to 44" w/42" being our set height. OSHA mandated. @ 26", anybody can sit on them and flip back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gugny Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 That's amazing! 26"??? I mentioned earlier how we had to change all our's @ work to 39" to 44" w/42" being our set height. OSHA mandated. @ 26", anybody can sit on them and flip back! Actually, the Mets are Amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 Actually, the Mets are Amazing! I caught that I was typing... LoL.... I just didn't know how to wrap it better! :-) I loved the Mets growing up... Nat team for me... Thanks: WOR! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 minus one That is EXACTLY what I thought when I heard it. I've been on the upper deck of that stadium and I remember standing at that rail feeling really creeped out. I don't do well with heights anyway, but I couldn't believe that little rail was the only barrier to that steep of a drop. I wasn't at all surprised by the story. I'm kind of surprised it doesn't happen more often. I'm really bad with heights, and we get front row upper deck for the Sabres for a few games, splitting a season package.............I can't stand all the way up for the national anthem. I'll lean back a little in my seat. That rail looks real short to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mead107 Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 Feeling bad for his family Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 (edited) That is EXACTLY what I thought when I heard it. I'm really bad with heights, and we get front row upper deck for the Sabres for a few games, splitting a season package.............I can't stand all the way up for the national anthem. I'll lean back a little in my seat. That rail looks real short to me. You remember the old "Oranges" @ The Aud... Those were the terror of my youth! Going to Braves games, sitting up there on our free Dairylea milk carton tickets! Anything to move down to "The Blues" when there was an open seat! Edited September 1, 2015 by ExiledInIllinois Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JÂy RÛßeÒ Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 You remember the old "Oranges" @ The Aud... Those were the terror of my youth! Going to Braves games, sitting up there on our free Dairylea milk carton tickets! Anything to move down to "The Blues" when there was an open seat! Totally! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 I caught that I was typing... LoL.... I just didn't know how to wrap it better! :-) I loved the Mets growing up... Nat team for me... Thanks: WOR! Kiner's Korner! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gugny Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 Kiner's Korner! That poor bastard. Went from slurring because he was always hammered to slurring after his stroke. But every Mets fan loved him!!! Classy of the Mets/network(s) to keep him on for as long as they did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 You remember the old "Oranges" @ The Aud... Those were the terror of my youth! Going to Braves games, sitting up there on our free Dairylea milk carton tickets! Anything to move down to "The Blues" when there was an open seat! I used to also go to a few games a year in the first row Oranges. A neighbor had seasons.............I was a kid, so the bar went up higher, but I still think that was the beginning of my fear of heights! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Jack Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 Here's an article from 2009 about railings in stadiums.... http://www.athleticbusiness.com/Stadium-Arena/should-building-codes-be-changed-to-keep-fans-from-falling-out-of-their-seats.html The International Building Code calls for a minimum height of 42 inches for railings at the base of aisles, and sightline issues here are often unavoidable (though frequently addressed through the specification of Plexiglas or mesh barriers, or flat, angled steel as opposed to tubular railings). In front of fixed seating, the minimum requirement drops to 26 inches, or roughly knee height, regardless of the potential fall distance from the deck. "The reason it's allowed to be lower is you're walking parallel to it, not straight into it," says Greg Sweeney, director of technical design at Rossetti, the architecture firm that designed Ottawa's Scotiabank Place, where last December a man tripped in the aisle and sailed out of the arena's third level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Here's an article from 2009 about railings in stadiums.... http://www.athleticbusiness.com/Stadium-Arena/should-building-codes-be-changed-to-keep-fans-from-falling-out-of-their-seats.html I read that! Shocking. I mentioned that we changed all our railings on the lock from 29" or so to 42". That's all we do is walk parallel to the railing! They built the lock chambers' original railing low back in 1960. There had to be some logic to why they went low, not just cost. Now, OSHA wants 42". I heard it's because people can be tempted to sit on a low railing, and then fall backwards. I thought maybe they had the stadiums railing @ 26" so as not to interfere w/the sight line when sitting. I can stomach that logic. OR, maybe they grandfathered in the stadium until it could be rehabbed like they did @ my work. I didn't look @ the layout of the stadium, but boo-bird fell into the lower aisle, not a row of seats. Do aisles line up or are they staggered in that stadium? I assumed he went down the aisle to the railing to boo, leaned over and fell. Fell onto the lower aisle. NOW... Get this. We installed the railing (which protects you from falling into the river, about 5-10 feet)... NEAR WATER of course. During the winter when the water was iced over, we were required to have fall protection (harness belayed to an anchor point) when installing the the new railing. BUT, if it was open water, no fall protection was needed. This is understandable I guess, falling on thick ice is like concrete. So, this is what we did soas not have to wear a harness. We sent a boat out into the chamber to break all the ice up! No harness needed. Every morning, out came the "icebreaker." LoL... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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