Circus Performer Hospitalized After Tightrope Fall onto Metallic Ground

A circus performer has been hospitalized with severe accidents after falling from a tightrope. 

The lady sustained “severe accidents” whereas performing an act throughout a circus present held at Glyne Hole Subject in East Sussex, England, on Monday, Aug. 19, the South East Coast Ambulance Service (Seacamb) confirmed to PEOPLE. 

In footage posted of the incident, per CBS Information, the performer stood on a chair between two different artists on a tightrope roughly 16 toes within the air. She then slowly sat on the again of the chair and lowered her legs to the edges. As she leaned ahead, she appeared to lose her footing and fell to the ground.

Seacamb mentioned in a press release to PEOPLE that they “have been referred to as at 4.45 p.m. on Monday that an individual had fallen from top.”

“The affected person, an grownup feminine, had suffered facial and different accidents in line with a fall. She was handled on the scene and brought by ambulance to the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton with severe accidents, though her situation was not considered life-threatening.”

The lady injured was a part of a Excessive Wire Troupe act from Columbia performing with Gravity Circus, in keeping with BBC Information 

Hayley Welsh, who attended the circus present and witnessed the autumn, advised the outlet, “It seemed like her leg gave means. She misplaced stability and went flying down wrapped across the wire. She smashed down onto the metallic flooring.”

Gravity Circus posted an replace on the incident within the remark part of their Fb web page, and mentioned the lady is “doing effectively” and “recovering in hospital.”

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“We are able to verify that an accident occurred final night time involving one in every of our tightrope performers throughout the present,” the corporate added in a press release to BBC Information.

“In reside leisure and high-risk performances, accidents can sadly occur regardless of stringent security measures. Our emergency protocols have been instantly enacted, and the performer was promptly taken to the hospital.”

The corporate added that its “major concern is the wellbeing of the performer” and a “thorough investigation” is being held, per BBC Information.

Gravity Circus didn’t instantly reply to PEOPLE when requested for remark.