{"id":244717,"date":"2025-10-28T02:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T02:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/244717\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T02:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T02:38:08","slug":"fan-at-penguins-game-hospitalized-after-falling-from-upper-concourse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/244717\/","title":{"rendered":"Fan at Penguins game hospitalized after falling from upper concourse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH \u2014 A fan at Monday night&#8217;s game between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/pittsburgh-penguins\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"pittsburgh-penguins\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> and St. Louis Blues was taken to a hospital after falling from the upper concourse at PPG Paints Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened early in the first period after Anthony Mantha&#8217;s goal gave the Penguins a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency personnel treated the fan, a man who was not identified, before taking him to Mercy Hospital, located a few blocks from the arena.<\/p>\n<p>Play was not halted at any time while the man was being treated. Pittsburgh police told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the man was in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur concerns remain with the individual and his family at this time,\u201d the Penguins said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The fall was the third such incident at a Pittsburgh sporting event this year.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Kavan Markwood\u00a0fell over the railing\u00a0atop the 21-foot-high Clemente Wall and onto the field at PNC Park late in a game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs. Markwood spent several days in the hospital but did make a recovery. An acquaintance of Markwood\u00a0was later charged\u00a0with providing alcohol to Markwood, who was 20 at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday night, a worker at Acrisure Stadium, home of the Pittsburgh Steelers, suffered injuries to his legs when he\u00a0fell approximately 50 feet\u00a0while doing work near the stadium&#8217;s scoreboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A fan at Monday night&#8217;s game between the Pittsburgh Penguins and St. Louis Blues was taken&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-244717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}