The lecture centre

California · United States · Execution site

A man fell a hundred feet from the scaffolding while the auditorium was being built and landed on his head.

During the construction of the auditorium at this school in Ridgecrest, California, a man fell from scaffolding, dropped around a hundred feet, and landed on his head.

He is one of two reported in the building.

The second account concerns something that is said to have happened during a school drama production. It is not documented, it concerns a death, and it is not repeated here.

Ridgecrest exists because of the naval weapons station at China Lake, one of the largest military installations in the country, and the town was built in the desert around it in the 1940s and 1950s. A school auditorium going up in that boom, at speed, is exactly where a fall like this happens.

A hundred feet is a specific figure and would be in the county record.

The school is in use.

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