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Published Monday, August 22, 2005 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

View of The Rolling Stones stage and the rafters at 8:11 p.m. Monday, Aug. 21, taken by camera phone inside Fenway Park from Section 2, Row 6, Seat 12. The Stones took the stage 10 minutes later. A 20-year-old woman fell from the corner of the rafters (look at the top center of this picture) at 10:11 p.m. Monday. Minutes earlier, she had been sitting on that beam that runs diagonally from top center to the right of frame. She landed on the seats below, a fall of approximately 30 feet, suffering fractures in her pelvis, ankles and wrist. It could have been so much worse.