Coachella Stagehand dies during the preparation of the festival

EXCLUSIVE

There is already a death on Coachella's doorstep a week before the official start of the festival … TMZ has learned.

A worker died Saturday morning at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, while he was involved in setting up one of the many scenes on the site. Eyewitnesses on the ground told us that the guy was climbing on scaffolding to make adjustments before the opening day next Friday.

It is unclear exactly how and why, but we were told that the man had fallen to about twenty meters on the ground because it was not stuck, which means that it was n & # 39; 39; had no safety harness attached to a cable to prevent it from collapsing.

A spokesman for the Indio police confirmed that a call had been made around 9:30 am Saturday to report a work accident at the Coachella concert ground during a fall near the assembly area. Police and fire departments responded, but we were told that the victim was declared dead on the scene.

The representative of the IPD said that the exact circumstances surrounding the death of the man were the subject of an investigation.

Coachella seems to have continued her life without making a lot of casualties until 2014, when a young festival-goer died from a drug overdose (…), which would be one of the first – if not the only – deaths occurred at Coachella. history of two decades.

We contacted Goldenvoice – who puts Coachella every year – for a comment … so far, no word has been answered.