Remember when Harrison Ford was injured on the set of Star Wars: The Force Awakens? Well, the saga of Han Solo's broken leg finally concluded when the production company for The Force Awakens was fined almost $2 million for violating workplace safety rules.
The accident took place at the Pinewood Studios in June 2014 when a hydraulic door collapsed on the Millennium Falcon set and crushed the 73-year-old actor's leg, causing him to undergo surgery.
The prosecutors said that a hyrdraulic door on the Millennium Falcon set fell down "millimeters from his face" and crushed his leg like a "blunt-edged guillotine."
"In the original film, if there had been a door, it would have been closed with a pulley and a stage hand just closing it," Ford said on a talk show last year "But now we had lots of money and technology and so they built a fucking great hydraulic door which closed at light speed."
The prosecutors compared the accident to a car collision and explained that it could have killed the then 71-year-old actor. The accident broke Ford's tibia and fibula, and delayed the filming by a couple of weeks.
On Wednesday, a British court fined Foodles Productions (reportedly named to conceal filming sites from people) £1.6 million after the Disney subsidiary pleaded guilty of failing to protect workers.
Star Wars: Episode VIII is scheduled to release in theaters on December 15, 2017.
Source: CNN
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