{"id":255606,"date":"2025-10-28T00:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/255606\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T00:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:56:08","slug":"fan-falls-from-stands-as-pens-score-2nd-goal-against-blues-at-ppg-paints-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/255606\/","title":{"rendered":"Fan falls from stands as Pens score 2nd goal against Blues at PPG Paints Arena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man fell at PPG Paints Arena immediately after the Pittsburgh Penguins scored their second goal in Monday\u2019s game against the St. Louis Blues.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh emergency medical services personnel could be seen tending to the man, who appeared to be unconscious, a witness who was sitting in the loge section told TribLive. The man fell about 7:15 p.m., moments after Anthony Mantha scored the Pens\u2019 second goal. He fell in front of people sitting in the loge section, the witness told TribLive.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t immediately known where he fell from.<\/p>\n<p>Play wasn\u2019t halted after the fall and few in the arena appeared to see it happen, although some social media accounts posted about it.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the second serious fan fall at a Pittsburgh sports event this year. It\u2019s also the third fall that happened at a Pittsburgh sports venue.<\/p>\n<p>On April 30, Kavan Markwood fell from the Clemente Wall in right field at PNC Park during a Pirates game.<\/p>\n<p>Markwood, 20, recovered from the fall, was charged with underage drinking, then invited back to the stadium to throw out the first pitch of a game. He was later charged with stalking an ex-girlfriend, according to court papers.<\/p>\n<p>Related:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/triblive.com\/sports\/pirates\/i-didnt-see-it-kavan-markwood-says-of-fall-from-clemente-wall-during-pirates-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8216;Broken everything&#8217;: Kavan Markwood hasn&#8217;t watched his fall from Clemente Wall during Pirates game<\/a><br \/>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/triblive.com\/sports\/a-blessing-to-be-back-here-kevin-markwood-throws-out-1st-pitch-at-pnc-park-nearly-5-months-after-falling-from-clemente-wall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8216;A blessing to be back here&#8217;: Kavan Markwood throws out 1st pitch<\/a><br \/>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/triblive.com\/local\/man-who-fell-at-pnc-park-charged-with-prowling-at-exs-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Man who fell at PNC Park charged with prowling at ex&#8217;s house<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, a man working on the main scorebored at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pittsburghpa.gov\/News-articles\/Public-Safety-Blotter\/2025\/EMS-Fire-Police-Respond-to-Acrisure-Stadium-for-Employee-Accident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Acrisure Stadium fell about 50 feet onto a catwalk<\/a>, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man fell at PPG Paints Arena immediately after the Pittsburgh Penguins scored their second goal in Monday\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-255606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}