![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/labor-day-celebration-disaster-as-60-students-plunge-into-lake-after-sudden-pier-collapse/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1_Labor-Day-celebrations-disaster-as-60-students-plunge-into-lake-when-pier-suddenly-collapses.jpg&description=Around 60 to 80 students celebrating Labor Day on a pier near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus plunged into a lake after the structure suddenly collapsed Disaster struck a collegiate Labor Day party after a pier holding around 60 to 80 University of Wisconsin-Madison students suddenly collapsed, sending them plunging into a lake just off their college campus. Terrifying video shows the moment the pier collapses and the scene erupting into chaos as students scramble to shore, search for lost items and check on their friends. The collapse began near the center of the structure, then rippled out to the rest, eventually sending debris from the entire Memorial Union Terrace pier tumbling into the waters of Lake Mendota. Around 25 people suffered minor injuries, and one was taken to the hospital for treatment for a non-life-threatening one, police said. Five others were treated by EMS, while the others injured reportedly didn't require treatment. For all the latest on news, politics, sports, and showbiz from the USA, go to The Mirror US Dozens of students lost their phones, wallets and keys, and Officer Jeff Kirchman of the UW-Madison Police Department told the Journal Sentinel that the law enforcement agency is actively dredging the bottom of the lake in search of those items. People looking to retrieve them can email adam.prescott@wisc.edu, another police officer, with a description of their lost items. He also said the pier had been scheduled to be removed from the lake for the season on Tuesday. It is owned by the university, the campus of which borders part of the lake. Lifeguards had reportedly not been on duty at the time of the collapse, the Wisconsin Union told NBC15. Freshman Gabrielle Willbrandt was on the pier when it went down and described her fear and shock to the outlet: "I turned to this one girl, and we were like, 'Oh my god. Did that really just happen?'" She reported minor injuries to her foot, which became trapped between fragments of debris){kind=link}
Around 60 to 80 students celebrating Labor Day on a pier near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus plunged into a lake after the structure suddenly collapsed
Disaster struck a collegiate Labor Day party after a pier holding around 60 to 80 University of Wisconsin-Madison students suddenly collapsed, sending them plunging into a lake just off their college campus.
Terrifying video shows the moment the pier collapses and the scene erupting into chaos as students scramble to shore, search for lost items and check on their friends.
The collapse began near the center of the structure, then rippled out to the rest, eventually sending debris from the entire Memorial Union Terrace pier tumbling into the waters of Lake Mendota.
Around 25 people suffered minor injuries, and one was taken to the hospital for treatment for a non-life-threatening one, police said. Five others were treated by EMS, while the others injured reportedly didn’t require treatment.