Star Wars To Be Prosecuted For Harrison Ford Leg Break

The Health And Safety Executive has announced it plans to prosecute the makers of ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ for the accident that led to Harrison Ford’s broken leg in 2014.

The Han Solo actor broke two bones in his left leg when a hydraulic door on the Millennium Falcon accidentally closed on him. He was airlifted to John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford for surgery and production on the film took a short break while he recovered.

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The HSE has brought four criminal charges against Foodles Production (UK) Ltd, a Disney off-shoot set up to produce the film, for alleged health and safety breaches saying it had sufficient evidence to prosecute. The case will be brought before High Wycombe Magistrates Court on 12 May.

A spokesperson said: “By law, employers must take reasonable steps to protect workers - this is as true on a film set as a factory floor.”

It’s not yet clear who was responsible for the accident - Ford himself said he didn’t want to know - but the 73-year-old made it sound very nasty when he appeared on the Jonathan Ross show back in December.

“We had a big budget this time. In the original film, the door – if there had been a door – would have been closed with a pulley and a stage hand just closing it,” Ford told Wossy.

“Now we had lots of money and technology and so they built a f***ing great hydraulic door which closed at light speed and somebody said, ‘Ooh I wonder what this is?’ And the door came down and hit me on my left hip because I was turned to my right.”

“And then it flung my left leg up and it dislocated my ankle, and as it drove me down to the floor, my legs slapped on the ramp up to the Millennium Falcon and broke both bones in my left leg.”

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