One of Radiohead's companies is among the firms that have been asked to comply with the investigation into Saturday's deadly stage collapse prior to the band's concert in Toronto.
It also emerged Monday that the lighting crew for the show had hesitations about the amount of weight rigged up, but an engineer gave the OK.
The Ontario Ministry of Labour said Monday it is looking at a number of companies, including Ticker Tape Touring LLP, in the wake of the disaster, which killed a member of Radiohead's road crew and injured three other people.
London-based Ticker Tape Touring is part of Radiohead's network of companies that manage the band's merchandise, tours, equipment, music distribution and publishing. The rock group's members make up the firm's board of directors.
The band's U.S. publicists said Monday that the band "is unable to comment concerning the stage structure at Downsview Park."
"Radiohead installs its production into the performance space as provided by the venue and/or promoter," an emailed statement said.
The Labour Ministry said it's also looking at Toronto-based Optex Staging and Services Inc., the company that built the stage for Saturday's cancelled show. Optex has built stages and grandstands for many large-scale events, including the 2003 World Cycling Championships in Hamilton and shows by U2 and Bon Jovi.
Calls to the company on Monday were rebuffed. A woman who answered the phone said, "We're not going to comment. We don't know anything about it, so that's it. Bye."
Concert promoter Live Nation and Vancouver-based Nasco Staffing Solutions, which supplies technical crews for concerts and other major audio-visual events, were also involved in preparations for the Radiohead show.
Labour ministry investigators have issued a number of orders to Live Nation, including a request for an engineer-approved plan to safely disassemble what's left of the collapsed stage in Downsview Park and a warning not to disturb the parts of the stage or the area around it once it has been dismantled.
The ministry has already been given the original, engineer-approved blueprints for the stage, but said it won't release the name of the engineering firm that signed off on it.
Live Nation would only say that "we do not have any further details at this time."
Investigation could take a year
Investigators are still trying to determine who was responsible for the rigging and how it broke apart so calamitously on Saturday.
At about 4 p.m. that day, an hour before concertgoers were to be admitted for the outdoor show, the roof above the stage caved in. Radiohead drum technician Scott Johnson was crushed to death, while three other people were injured, one seriously.
The full probe into the collapse could take up to a year.
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