A man has died after falling 65 feet from an upper deck at Turner
Field during a baseball game between the Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia
Phillies at about 9pm Monday
Baseball fans look over the railing at Turner Field where a man fell
up to 40 feet onto a parking lot below during a baseball game Monday
night
Police found that alcohol had factored into that accident, which the
Braves said was the first non-medical fatality to happen at the
ballpark.
Isaac Grubb, 20, of Lenoir City, Tennessee, died after falling over a
railing at the Georgia Dome during a football game between Tennessee
and North Carolina State on August 31, 2012. Authorities said he landed
on another man seated in the lower level, and that alcohol was a factor.
Several falls in sports stadiums have troubled Georgia recently, such as Isaac Grubb's fatal fall at the Georgia Dome
A man fell about 25 feet over a staircase railing at a Georgia
Tech-Miami football game on September 22, 2012 and was not seriously
injured.
Turner Field became the home of the Braves in 1997, a year after
serving as the site of major events for the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Police cannot yet comment on whether alcohol was a factor in this latest fall.
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