Ontario’s labour ministry is investigating an industrial accident on the Toronto set of “Beast Games,” the newly launched Prime Video competitors collection from YouTube star MrBeast.
The ministry says a employee was injured by falling wooden on Sept. 11 on the set, a miniature village constructed for the present on the grounds of the previous Downsview Airport.
The labour ministry didn’t share the extent of the particular person’s accidents, citing the continued investigation, but it surely says the employers — Blink 49 Studios and Manhattan Seashore Studios — had been every issued a “requirement.” A ministry spokesperson didn’t say what that was.
Neither firm responded to requests for remark, nor did Prime Video.
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Toronto Police say they, too, had been known as to the set that day, however the incident just isn’t felony in nature, so they aren’t investigating.
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An investigation revealed by Rolling Stone final week containing broader allegations about circumstances on the set reported {that a} employee was injured on Sept. 11 when “a six-foot-by-six-foot piece of the exterior of the tower fell on a crew member while the set was being packed away,” however the labour ministry wouldn’t verify these particulars.
“Beast Games” is the most recent output from Jimmy Donaldson, whose YouTube channel MrBeast boasts 340 million subscribers: probably the most of any consumer on the video-sharing platform.
The 26-year-old from Kansas made a reputation for himself on-line by trying outlandish stunts and freely giving eye-popping quantities of cash.
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Within the Prime Video collection that premiered earlier this month, a thousand folks compete for the possibility to win US$5 million. Most of the challenges name on contestants to both sacrifice their very own likelihood at successful the cash, or that of a teammate.
The present has already been beset by controversy. In September, 5 unnamed contributors in an preliminary tryout that was filmed in Las Vegas for Donaldson’s YouTube channel filed a lawsuit towards the creator and his manufacturing firm.
They accused Donaldson of making “unsafe” employment circumstances, together with sexual harassment, and misrepresenting contestants’ odds at successful.
In a submit on the social media platform X, Donaldson wrote that the claims had been “blown out of proportion,” and he would launch behind-the-scenes footage to reveal that when the present got here out.
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