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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Injured during tech?
« on: Mar 05, 2007, 03:36 pm »
Really embarrassing story...
We had put plywood covers on top of our VOMS to use as entrances to the stage and sort of extensions of the stage (in-the-round). And during strike I thought I would start there and work my way in. I assumed (silly me) that there was a support underneath since the actors were traipsing up and down this thing for a month. I'm kneeling on the plywood and I take a screwgun to the floor. Take out three screws, no problem. Begin taking out the fourth and I hear this high-pitched screech followed by the floor tilting slightly. In that split second I realized what was happening but it was still too late. I leaned forward just enough that when the floor beneath me dropped, the floor panel in front of me hit me on my chest and I fell maybe four feet to the VOM floor. The SM was in the booth at the time and said, "One second I saw you working and the next second I saw your head disappear beneath the floor."
To add embarrassment to injury--
I had to fill out an accident report and write specifically which body part I hurt.
There's no tactful way to say 'bruised left boob.'
We had put plywood covers on top of our VOMS to use as entrances to the stage and sort of extensions of the stage (in-the-round). And during strike I thought I would start there and work my way in. I assumed (silly me) that there was a support underneath since the actors were traipsing up and down this thing for a month. I'm kneeling on the plywood and I take a screwgun to the floor. Take out three screws, no problem. Begin taking out the fourth and I hear this high-pitched screech followed by the floor tilting slightly. In that split second I realized what was happening but it was still too late. I leaned forward just enough that when the floor beneath me dropped, the floor panel in front of me hit me on my chest and I fell maybe four feet to the VOM floor. The SM was in the booth at the time and said, "One second I saw you working and the next second I saw your head disappear beneath the floor."
To add embarrassment to injury--
I had to fill out an accident report and write specifically which body part I hurt.
There's no tactful way to say 'bruised left boob.'