INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A state agency's report says the Indiana
State Fair's executive director and other officials took part in an
emergency exercise last July that eerily foreshadowed weather
conditions a month later that caused a deadly stage collapse.

The report by the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health
Administration says the July 12 exercise foretold almost the exact
conditions of the Aug. 13 tragedy, when seven people were killed
after the stage rigging plunged into the crowd.

The scenario imagined high winds, lightning and hail and
specifically mentioned the concert by country duo Sugarland, which
fans were waiting to hear before the stage collapse.

A state labor department spokesman says it proves the fair
commission had insufficiently prepared for the conditions.

On Wednesday, the commission paid a $6,300 IOSHA fine for
workplace violations.