Many of the injuries were sustained when fans jumped onto the field from a barrier as high as 15 feet in places, said Michael Authement, director of operations for emergency medical provider LifeNet EMS. Others were stomped on in the push to get to the field, he said.
The survey was conducted by OpenTCA a consortium of major sell-side firms and TradingScreen, a provider of multi-broker and multi-asset class execution management systems (EMS) to the buy side.