St. John Fisher College Fisher Digital Publications Sport Management Undergraduate Sport Management Department Spring 2012 Fan Safety at Sports Facilities Benjamin G. Ward St. John Fisher College Follow this and additional works at: https://fisherpub.sjfc.edu/sport_undergrad Part of the Sports Management Commons How has open access to Fisher Digital Publications benefited ou?y Recommended Citation Ward, Benjamin G., "Fan Safety at Sports Facilities" (2012). Sport Management Undergraduate. Paper 38. Please note that the Recommended Citation provides general citation information and may not be appropriate for your discipline. To receive help in creating a citation based on your discipline, please visit http://libguides.sjfc.edu/citations. This document is posted at https://fisherpub.sjfc.edu/sport_undergrad/38 and is brought to you for free and open access by Fisher Digital Publications at St. John Fisher College. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Fan Safety at Sports Facilities Abstract Accidents involving fans occur at sports facilities around the globe. The purpose of this research was to discover the reactions of local facility managers and their customers to fan accidents at sports venues, recommendations to address safety concerns at their sports facilities, opinions of customers expressed to their facility managers regarding possible installation of additional safety measures as related to the fan experience at sports events, and opinions of facility managers to the possible elimination of the assumption of risk or “baseball” rule. Baseball is the sport with the most reported fan accidents at their stadiums but other sports have fan accidents and deaths as well. The results revealed the opinions of the facility managers.