Becket – The office of the state medical examiner has set the official cause of Kat Sirico's accident death in Jacob's pillows.
The medical investigator's office found that the cause was “blunt effects of the head” caused by Sirico [a] Woodpapers. “
The production manager of Jacobs Pillow production, Kat Sirico, was killed on August 1st after a “work accident”, said the district prosecutor of Berkshire.
Sirico, 40, an experienced theater professional and educator from Rochester, NY, was declared dead on site, according to Julia Sabourin, a spokesman for the district prosecutor of Berkshire, Timothy Shugrue.
While only a few official details were published about what happened on the Becket campus of the world-famous dance festival on August 1st, the office says that no criminal complaints are submitted in Sirico's death. However, the US administration for security and healthcare has opened an investigation of the death of Sirico. Five days after the accident, the festival abruptly canceled the rest of its summer season.
According to the public prosecutor, shortly after noon on August 1, Sirico, who used her, used her pronouns, and an internship that was used for staging with a dolly over the Jacob's Pillow Campus. When Sirico and the intern brought the dolly down into a sloping area, she lost control of the dolly that began to roll.
Sirico tried to regain control of the dolly, but stumbled out and fell. The dolly then rolled over Sirico and the platforms fell from the dolly and landed on them.
Becket's police answered at 12:31 p.m. and the Becket Ambulance came four minutes later.
The Chief Medical Examiner office refused to characterize the size and weight of the objects that Sirico met and whether her death was directly.
A spokesman for Jacob's pillow said that grief consultants were made available to the employees “within a few hours after the accident” and remain available.
No medical technician on site during the accident
Max Koivisto, the co-director of the Becket Ambulance department, said that if Jacobs request a medical detail for events, the department is making an EMT that, in the event of a medical emergency or an injury, determines whether a person can be treated on site or requires an ambulance. He said the pillow also had medical staff available.
A Jacob's Pillow spokesman said that a nurse was an employee during the festival and added: “There is an action plan to manage medical situations.”
The Becket Ambulance Department's garage in Route 20 is 3.6 miles east of Jacob's pillows. In posted motorway speeds, it is a 6-minute drive from the garage to the campus of the dance festival.
The Becket Ambulance department financed by the city has an ambulance and is occupied 24 hours a day, seven days a week, said Koivisto. In the event that a call is received while the ambulance is out of operation, the ambulances in Otis and Lee would be asked to cover in this order, he said.
Koivisto said the company had no rescue doctor on campus at the time of the incident. The spokesman for a Jacob pillow confirmed this and noticed that the accident “occurred outside a planned performance”.
Jacob's pillow had planned three events for August 1st: Sekou McMiller and friends, at 2 p.m. in the Ted Shawn Theater; Eun-me ancestry, at 2:20 p.m. in the Doris Duke Theater; and Kara Jenelle and the Kaje movement collective on the stage of Henry J. Leir.
All three services were canceled.
“It happened so quickly”
A volunteer of Jacob's Pillow spoke with the eagle on the condition that they were not identified, said the guests arrived on the campus for the performances of the afternoon when the accident took place. The volunteer did not experience the incident.
According to the volunteer account, you and other volunteers were first informed that the afternoon performance would not take place. Shortly afterwards they were informed that the campus was closed for the day, but not why. When they left the campus, Jacob's pillow staff steered the guests to turn their vehicles around.
The volunteer only found out the next day that Sirico had died.
“It was a shock. It happened so quickly,” said the volunteer. “It took a while to dive.”
On Monday afternoon, a sign at the entrance of the George Carter Road Campus of the Pillows informed the visitors that the dance center was closed to the public. There were about 37 cars in the parking lot opposite the main entrance, and further up the George Carter Road there were more parked cars, and people could do their day. The dance center is a year -round company, said a spokesman.
On Monday there was no public access to the site at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Becket. The summer season of the dance festival was canceled on August 6th after the accident death by employees Kat Sirico.
Osha examination
It was not clear whether Osha employees were on site. Until Monday, Osha's case, which is treated by his office in Springfield, was still open. The scope is listed as “partially”, the Osha defines as an inspection, “the scope of which is limited to certain potentially dangerous areas, operations, conditions or practices in the facility.” According to this definition, the inspection of Osha would be limited to closeness and areas in connection with the accident.
The agency's field manual published on its website determines the standards and procedures for examining a death at the workplace or the disaster.
“All deaths and disasters are thoroughly examined to determine the cause of the event (regardless of whether the security and health standards, health standards, the regulations or the general service clause have taken place) and all the effects that the incident had,” says the directive.
The guideline stipulates that interviews from management, rescue workers, medical staff and witnesses should take place as soon as possible. It also provides for “informant privileges” that enables the government to hold back the identity of people, provide information about the violation of laws, including OSHA rules and regulations.
Details are also submitted about the employer's health and security program. B. whether such a program is present if it deals with the type of danger with the fatal incident and how it is implemented.
Sirico was a graduate of the Nazareth College in Rochester and the Yale School of Drama. In addition to earlier experiences in Jacob's Pillow, Sirico also worked in institutions such as the children's theater of Madison, Wisconsin, Texas A & M and the Fisher Center at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, in production and lighting design.
Sirico joined the University of Rochester as a lecturer in December. The university honored Sirico on her website last week.
“Regardless of whether the dance artists with whom they have worked with, well-known experts in the field, the faculty or students, Kat was just as enthusiastic about the creative process, about experimenting and about bringing dances to life in a multi-dimensional way,” said Missy Pfohl Smith, the director of the university's dance and movement program. “Your lighting designs and their production support were filled with this love and care, and they were just as passionate about the design of a curriculum for dance production for our students, which they would prepare for a career in dance.”
Amanda Burke contributed to this report.