Sentence examples for platform collapsed from inspiring English sources

The second drama occurred at the show itself, when the photographers' platform collapsed, resulting in pandemonium.

When an elevated platform collapsed during a performance of "Faust," the veteran mezzo-soprano Wendy White fell eight feet.

Ten benefactors on a behind-the-scenes tour of a New Orleans aquarium plunged into a shark tank after a platform collapsed on Wednesday.

The men were working on installing 30-inch-diameter waterlines under and across the bridge when their scaffolding platform collapsed, officials said.

As the platform, collapsed into the sea, the environmental cost started to become clear as with reports of vast amounts of crude oil gushing from the broken well head.

Two brothers who plunged 47 stories from a Manhattan building when their window-washing platform collapsed — killing one and gravely injuring the other — knew their scaffold had a mechanical problem before they ascended the tower, but were assured by a boss that it had been fixed, a family member said yesterday.

For example, in the 1990s, in a few East European countries, literature only survived because of the Internet, because previous state supported cultural platforms collapsed.

It was unclear whether Mr. Rodriguez simply fell from the platform or the platform had collapsed, officials said.

The inspector general's audit also led to the discovery of two other collapses, a ceiling collapse at the Bowling Green station of the No. 4 and 5 lines, and a platform collapse at the 18th Avenue station of the F line.

After what may or may not have been a weapons raid on the Brad Pitt zombie movie, "World War Z," a platform collapse in Canada on the set of the latest installment in the "Resident Evil" series has resulted in injuries to 16 actors portraying zombies, The Associated Press reported.

Mr. Edelman asserted that the Met's own investigation into the accident, while Ms. White was performing as Marthe in Gounod's "Faust," showed that the platform had collapsed because it was held together with a window hinge instead of a heftier piece of hardware.