canopy structure. DallasCowboys.com
My thoughts and prayers go out to the family of Rich Behm, 33, a Dallas Cowboys scouting assistant, who was permanently paralyzed from the waist down after his spine was severed during the collapse of the team's "bubble" practice structure during a "microburst" spawned by inclement weather which moved through the state yesterday. He reportedly sustained a fracture to the thoracic spine (10th thoracic vertebrae).
Behm was among the 12 people hurt in the accident, and was one of three Cowboys staffers who remained hospitalized. Also hospitalized were Joe DeCamillis, 43, the team's new special teams coach, sustained a fracture of one of his cervical vertebrae without paralysis, as well as assistant athletic trainer Greg Gaither, 35, who had surgery Saturday night to repair a fracture to the tibia and fibula in his right leg.
According to media reports, about 70 people, including 27 players attending a rookie minicamp, were in the structure when the storm hit. Wind in the area around that time was clocked at 64 mph. Officials from the National Weather Service said a "microburst" may have pushed the wind beyond 70 mph at the top of the structure that was built in 2003.
The no-frills building, which cost about $4 million, was pretty much a 100-yard football field with a few more yards of clearance all the way around. The roof was 80 feet high, the equivalent of an eight-story building. There may be some legal issues for Summit Structures LLC, which was involved in building the facility. According to media reports, a Pennsylvania court ruled in 2003 that the company was negligent in the design and construction of a membrane-covered building that collapsed in 2003 after a major snowstorm in Philadelphia. The building was constructed for the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority. I know this cannot fix the health of the injured, but if this company sold an inferior product, then they need to be held accountable.
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