A crew member dies in the filming of Tom Hanks' film Mister Rogers

The tragedy hit the filming of a movie starring Tom Hanks as a children's television host, Mister Rogers, when a team member dies after losing two stories from a balcony. Directed by Marielle Heller, the film called at a given moment You are my friendbut is currently untitled. Filming takes place in Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania.

The crew was James M. Emswiller, a 61-year-old sound mixer, who was previously working on The Avengers and Jack Reacher. In 2015, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for his work on Dee Rees' film Bessie, biopic about the life of the blue singer Bessie Smith.

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Deadline reports that Emswiller fell from the balcony of an apartment where the film was shot and fell over the brick wall after suffering a medical emergency. CBS Pittsburgh reports that he may have had a heart attack. The nurse at the play site administered rescue measures until the arrival of the doctors, but Emswiller was already in cardiac arrest. He was taken to UPMC Mercy Hospital, where he died at 10:36 pm, about three hours after the fall. The filming has been put on hold and we do not know when it will resume.

In a statement, Sony Pictures said: "It's a devastating tragedy and the studio is studying the issue. Our thoughts and prayers are with Jim's loved ones, friends and colleagues.OSHA is also investigating, as is the local police.The death is thought to have been caused by a heart attack, but CBS Pittsburgh said that as long as it was not confirmed, the police treated it like any other criminal investigation was. on site to take pictures.

Movie theaters generally have very strict rules on health and safety. The dead on the set are therefore uncommon – although not unknown. Last year, the stuntwoman Joi "S.J." Harris was killed on the set of Deadpool 2 after being ejected from a motorcycle through a glass pane. Also in 2017, stuntman John Bernecker died after falling off a balcony on the set of The dead who walk. In both cases, questions were raised about how deaths could have been prevented, and The dead who walk The production company Stalwart Films LLC has been fined by OSHA for "failure to provide adequate protection against the risk of falling. "

At the present time, it does not appear that the death of Emswiller is the result of negligence on the part of the studio or the filmmakers, but rather of an abnormal accident resulting from 39, heart attack. However, we will have to wait for the studio, the police and the OSHA to complete their investigations before having a definitive answer.

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Source: Deadline, CBS Pittsburgh

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