ATLANTA — A 20-year-old man was taken to an Atlanta hospital Friday night after falling approximately 35 feet from the upper level of the Georgia Dome at the Tennessee-North Carolina State game.
The Georgia World Congress Center Authority, which operates the downtown football stadium, said in a statement Friday night that the man fell on another fan seated in the mezzanine area at about 8:30 p.m.
The fan who was hit while seated also was taken to the Atlanta hospital.
Authority spokeswoman Jennifer LeMaster said late Friday that she did not know the conditions of the injured fans, whom she said were transported almost immediately to the hospital. Their names were not immediately released.
The incident comes a day after a similar one in Texas in which a 25-year-old fan died after tumbling about 60 feet from a fifth-floor escalator at Reliant Stadium during a preseason Houston Texans game.
Jonathon Kelly of Houston fell to the ground floor during the Thursday night game against the Minnesota Vikings, and frantic witnesses called police to report where his body had landed, police spokesman John Cannon said.
Police said that fall appeared to be an accident.
In 2011, a firefighter attending a Texas Rangers game in Arlington died when he fell from the left field stands while reaching for a baseball tossed his way by All-Star outfielder Josh Hamilton. The man's 9-year-old son witnessed the fall. A statue was later dedicated at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington to the man and his son, and railings were raised throughout the ballpark before this season.
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Associated Press writer Charles Odum contributed to this story from Atlanta.
