The Mariners gave some thought to moving to BC Place in Vancouver for the rest of the season, but in the end decided to take to the road. The Mariners may have been the only team to let out a sigh of relief when the 1994 strike came ending the baseball season early. While nobody was injured from the initial incident, tragedy would come to the Kingdome in August. A massive crane, brought in to fix the ceiling tiles, came crashing down killing the two workers who were in the bucket. A new stadium had gone from a matter if, to a matter of how and when.