Note to rooftop partygoers everywhere: hopping on top of skylights is not a safe activity.
An MIT student at a party atop the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity house last Wednesday night suffered non-life threatening injuries after falling four stories through a plexiglass dome. The individual, who asked not to be identified, was said to be “jumping up and down” on the skylight before it gave way.
Despite the plunge, the student was reported to be in good spirits in the aftermath.
Goodness knows how.
“He was funny,” the fraternity’s president said. “He was trying to be joking about it.”
Subsequent to the incident, Boston city inspectors issued multiple safety citations to the building’s owners.
“It didn’t have the requisite railings; it didn’t meet the building code, and hazards like skylights should have been blocked off,” the commissioner of the city’s Inspectional Services Department, Bryan Glascock, told the Boston Globe.
There also was concern about the condition of the fraternity house’s condition, given its age and ongoing construction projects. New England Cable News reported that a spokesperson for the inspections department wasn’t sure of the last time inspectors had been through the building.
