National Football League

Report: Fan injures brain in fall at Ravens game

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 11:26 p.m. ET

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This is becoming a serious and unwelcome trend in the NFL.

On Nov. 24, a fan fell from the upper deck of Ralph Wilson Stadium during a Buffalo Bills game, landing on and injuring a fan below.

This past Sunday came reports that a woman jumped 45 feet from the upper deck at O.Co Coliseum in Oakland, only to have her fall broken in an apparent suicide attempt by a bystander. At present, the man who broke the fall is expected to recover; the woman who jumped is listed in critical condition.

But that was not the only incident of a fan injured in a fall at an NFL stadium in Week 12.

In Baltimore, a 48-year-old man slipped and fell on steps in the upper deck of M&T Bank Stadium, according to the Baltimore Sun. Dan Clark of Ferndale, Md., fell to the bottom of a staircase late in the first half of Sunday's game, reportedly suffering injuries to his head in the fall.

The story said he was in "serious condition" at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center and was to undergo brain surgery Sunday night.

According to the story:

In the incident in Buffalo, both men involved were briefly hospitalized and released.

On the NFL's opening day this year, a fan died from a fall off a pedestrian overpass outside Candlestick Park in San Francisco, and two others were injured when a railing collapsed at the Colts' game against the Raiders in Indianapolis.

—The Associated Press contributed to this report