{"id":19305,"date":"2025-10-30T02:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/19305\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T02:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:47:07","slug":"worker-recovering-after-falling-50-feet-from-acrisure-stadium-scoreboard-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/19305\/","title":{"rendered":"Worker recovering after falling 50 feet from Acrisure Stadium scoreboard \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A contract worker from the Chicago area is recovering after he fell more than 50 feet from a scoreboard at Pittsburgh\u2019s Acrisure Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/worker-critical-condition-after-falling-50-feet-acrisure-stadium-scoreboard\/9564b3b7-8721-4a07-ae60-507e81461a8c\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/worker-critical-condition-after-falling-50-feet-acrisure-stadium-scoreboard\/9564b3b7-8721-4a07-ae60-507e81461a8c\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to NBC affiliate WPXI, <\/a>Keith Keller was working on behalf of NBC Sports, installing a remote camera for Sunday\u2019s game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers when he fell from the scoreboard atop the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>WPXI reported Pittsburgh EMT\u2019s used a basket and pulley system to lower Keller to the ground, and he was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was listed in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Brennan, who describes himself as a friend and colleague of Keller\u2019s, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-keith-kellers-long-road-to-recovery?attribution_id=sl:4039bed2-adff-4169-8cd5-4d1d500419e4&amp;lang=en_US&amp;ts=1761742849&amp;utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&amp;utm_content=amp17_tb&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=copy_link\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-keith-kellers-long-road-to-recovery?attribution_id=sl:4039bed2-adff-4169-8cd5-4d1d500419e4&amp;lang=en_US&amp;ts=1761742849&amp;utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&amp;utm_content=amp17_tb&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">set up a GoFundMe account<\/a> to help pay for medical bills, and that account has already raised more than $130,000 as of Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/local\/city\/2025\/10\/29\/acrisure-stadium-fall-keith-keller\/stories\/202510290052\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/local\/city\/2025\/10\/29\/acrisure-stadium-fall-keith-keller\/stories\/202510290052\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brennan told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/a> that Keller is \u201cdoing remarkably well\u201d after the incident, but faces a long road to recovery.<\/p>\n<p>According to Brennan, Keller suffered multiple fractures in both of his legs, and also lacerated both his liver and his spleen in the fall, among other traumatic injuries.<\/p>\n<p>No further information on the incident was immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A contract worker from the Chicago area is recovering after he fell more than 50 feet from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8590,73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-19305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-pittsburgh","10":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","11":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}