cleanup during pearl jam's concert at the orange stage in a violent accident occurred nine people died in front of the stage the exact conditions as to how they died have been examined by both the police and the public prosecutor and at subsequent civil trials the conclusion of these determines that it was an accident many people fell down which often happens at big concerts but at one place they did not get up again some crowdsurfers fell into this hole and are believed to have been factors of the event turning wrong crowdsurfing was subsequently forbidden across most of europe the people at the bottom died of suffocation when the security guards in front of the stage got to the area after the music had been stopped it was too late in the following year the accident led to massive changes with regards to safety to avoid similar situations not just at roskilde festival the security conditions for festivals everywhere in europe changed before the accident in roskilde festival was considered one of the safest festivals and yet the accident happened there many other festivals have smaller safety systems than roskilde festival and revised their procedures even further for instance glastonbury festival in england chose to cancel its festival in to have enough time to reorganize the safety planning since the festival in was not at all at level with roskilde festival each year roskilde festival makes an extensive health and safety assessment which the festival is executed on the basis of the accident at the orange stage led to the construction of a memorial grove with a stone with the inscription how fragile we are surrounded by nine trees seriously this bit needs cleanup flash