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A stage supervisor at the Des Moines Metro Opera was injured in July 2024 when a cart of flooring tipped over, highlighting concerns about worker safety.

Current and former opera production workers allege a pattern of unsafe working conditions, including long hours, tight deadlines, and an aging theater with design flaws.

Multiple injuries, some requiring ambulance transport, have occurred at the opera, raising questions about underreporting on official logs.

Part of a series on the labor practices of the Des Moines Metro Opera.

Des Moines Metro Opera stage operations workers were taking apart sets inside the Blank Performing Arts Center last July when they heard a crash.

Outside, in the back parking lot, a woman expelled “one of the most blood-curdling screams I

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