FILE – A Marvel Studios brand is proven throughout the Walt Disney Studios presentation at CinemaCon 2023, the official conference of the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) at Caesars Palace, Wednesday, April 26, 2023, in Las Vegas. A crewmember who was working on the Marvel Studios sequence “Wonder Man” has died following an accident on set. The commerce publication Deadline reviews that the person was a rigger who fell from the rafters Tuesday morning, Feb. 6, 2024, at CBS Radford Studios in Studio City, Calif.
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A crewmember who was working on the Marvel Studios series Wonder Mandied following an accident on set Tuesday morning at CBS Radford Studios in Studio City.
The man, whose identify was not made public, was a rigger who fell from the rafters, based on Deadline, which first reported the information.
“Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with his family and friends, and our support is behind the investigation into the circumstances of this accident,” a Marvel spokesperson mentioned in an announcement.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, would be the investigating physique.
Matthew D. Loeb, president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, mentioned the labor union was shocked and saddened.
“We are working to support our member’s family, and his fellow members and colleagues,” Loeb mentioned in an announcement. “Safety on set is our highest priority and we will assist Cal/OSHA in their investigation in any way that we can.”
While crew accidents and deaths on movie and tv units have traditionally been underreported, there have been a number of fatalities in latest years which have resulted in high-profile lawsuits and requires trade reforms.
They embrace the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie Rust when a gun that actor Alec Baldwin was pointing at her went off, and the 2014 dying of Sarah Jones, a 27-year-old digital camera assistant killed in a train accident on the set of the movie Midnight Rider.
Between 1990 and 2014, at the least 43 folks died on units in the U.S. and greater than 150 had been left with life-altering accidents, based on a 2016 report by The Associated Press. Those numbers had been derived by combing via knowledge from office and aviation security investigations, court docket data and information accounts.
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Filming is set to start subsequent month on Wonder Man, starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, after the manufacturing on the sequence was delayed by final 12 months’s twin Hollywood strikes.