Astroworld Festival Crowd Crush (2021)

Astroworld Festival’s 2021 crowd crush resulted in 10 deaths and over 300 injuries, sparking global safety debates. Despite having 21 doctors on-site, the event allowed 50,000 attendees into a single exit-point configuration, a 40% increase over prior years without added precautions. This tragedy was deadlier than Woodstock '99's single-assault count because it lacked any triage plan during the 10-minute surge, leading to a fatal bottleneck that security was unable to manage. The death toll per 100,000 attendees—20—was double the average of major US music festivals, highlighting a preventable safety failure that cost $1.8 billion in lawsuits.