Crowd Disaster Risk Identification in Large Sport Venues

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A significant number of crowd accidents have occurred in sport venues in the past as well as recently. Statistics of crowd disasters were discussed and the results of time and location are 1509 deaths and 10642 injuries, incidence of crowd accidents in grandstand areas is up to 54%. Serious security risks still exist, and we should pay more attention to sports building safety. Different stages of accidents include crowd gathering, trigger factors, accident happened and rescue failure. Finally, crowd disaster risk in sport venues was identified. This paper aims to lay a foundation to improve comprehensive disaster prevention system in stadium.

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