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A member of the team working on the upcoming Mister Rogers film with Tom Hanks died as a result of a fall on the set.
James Emswiller, a sound technician, fell from two stories on the balcony of a building on Thursday in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Mount Lebanon, while taking a break between two scenes, reports CBS News.
Emswiller, who, according to the county's coroner, was 61, may have suffered a heart attack before the fall, according to local reports.
Police and paramedics were called around 7:30 pm after other crew members would have heard Emswiller hit the ground. He was transported by doctors to UPMC Mercy in critical condition and died shortly thereafter.
Police representatives from Mount Lebanon and Sony Pictures did not immediately respond to HuffPost's requests for comment.
The crew was on the second day of filming a scene from inside an apartment with Hanks, who was apparently on the set at the time of the accident. Production was stopped immediately and it was not known when it would resume.
The filming of the project began in Pittsburgh in mid-September.
Emswiller had worked for decades as a sound mixer for a number of Hollywood blockbusters. He received an Emmy for an outstanding sound mix for a limited series or movie in 2015 for the HBO biopic, "Bessie". His other credits include "The Avengers", "Jack Reacher" and "The Fault in Our Stars", according to IMDb. .
Mister Rogers' film, previously called "You Are My Friend", is inspired by the friendship of the missing children's television icon with journalist Tom Junod, who wrote a profile of Esquire in 1998 to his subject.
The first image of the film, due out on October 18, 2019, was released in September and shows Hanks wearing Rogers' signature vest.
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