The Who Concert Stampede (1979) caused 11 fan deaths in a crowd crush at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum, driven by festival seating with only 16 doors open for 14,000 people. This disaster remains the deadliest crowd crush in concert history, 50% deadlier than the average event tragedy, and sparked laws requiring all-accessible seating within 2 years. It outperforms #7 Burning Man Mud Stranding in mortality rate (11 deaths versus 1), but lacks the logistical complexity of a desert evacuation involving 73,000 people.
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