History Main / OnSetInjury

It's a serious sign of a TroubledProduction, which can be aggravated if several of these incidents continue to occur or [[FatalMethodActing causes death during production]]. These incidents can lead to delays in the production or worse, the production forced to shut down for safety reasons.

* ''Series/{{The Avengers|1960s}}''[='=] episode "Mandrake" featured Creator/HonorBlackman have a fight scene with wrestler Jackie Pallo. In one take, he accidentally knocked him out for four minutes (she forgot to feint first, then kick, and simply kicked him in the head, knocking him onto the concrete floor of the studio). The incident garnered plenty of publicity in the British press. Blackman was in tears when it happened and sat by him until he recovered.

* ''Theatre/StarlightExpress'': The original production, performed on roller skates at speeds of up to 40 MPH, was widely known as one of the most dangerous plays on the West End, with the 21 actors averaging three injuries per run ''each'', and one actress later suing the company. ''Wait in the Wings'' would later title [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTXtLNsrvlI his retrospective on the musical]] "The Painful Spectacle of ''Starlight Express''" for this reason.

** At the start of WebVideo/BennettTheSage's ''Manga/ElfenLied'' review, Sage has a skit where he was lured into a hotel conference room and being "beaten" severely[[note]](they were using wiffle ball bats and other harmless Improvisedweapons)[[/note]] by his fellow (at the time) co-creators, which culminated on someone breaking [[CombatCueStick a pool cue stick]] on his back. This was supposed to be faked, but the cue was broken several inches below the break spot. This ended up with Bennet actually taking the hit, which ended up leaving a long welt across his back.

* ''Theatre/StarlightExpress'': The original production, performed on roller skates at high speed, was widely known as one of the most dangerous plays on the West End, with the 21 actors averaging three injuries per run ''each'', and one actress later suing the company. ''Wait in the Wings'' would later title [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTXtLNsrvlI his retrospective on the musical]] "The Painful Spectacle of ''Starlight Express''" for this reason.

* Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'':

* ''Theatre/GroundhogDay'': Andy Karl, the original Phil Connors, famously tore his ACL in Broadway previews while leapfrogging over another performer during "Philanthropy", finishing the performance on a walking stick. He missed several performances, but returned for opening night, performing with a knee brace. This would later be referenced at the 2017 Tony Awards.
* ''Theatre/StarlightExpress'': The original production, performed on roller skates at high speed, was widely known as one of the most dangerous plays on the West End, with the 21 actors averaging three injuries per run ''each'', and one actress later suing the company. ''Wait in the Wings'' would later title [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTXtLNsrvlI his retrospective on the musical]], "The Painful Spectacle of ''Starlight Express''" for this reason.

** He did the stunt in ''Film/FirstBlood'' where he leaps from a cliffside to a treehimself. The look of pain is real, as he cracked several ribs doing the stunt. Also, while filming for the scene where Rambo first runs into the abandoned mine shaft to elude the guards firing at him, Stallone seriously injured his hand after failing to realize that his hand was on the top of a gunfire squib that went off after. The injury was so severe that he almost lost his thumb. After performing for a stunt in a deleted scene, the stunt driver for Creator/BrianDennehy, Bennie E. Dobbins, suffered a lumbar compression fracture.

** Creator/Richard Hammond crashed a dragster at 288 mph, seriously injuring his brain. His front-right tire failed on the seventh run that caused him to hit the grass and roll the Vampire he was driving. During the roll, his helmet had embedded itself into the ground, flipping the visor up and forcing dirt into his mouth and left eye, damaging the eye. Rescuers felt a pulse and heard the unconscious Hammond breathing before the car was turned upright.

* Some of the live shows based on ''Series/{{Bottom}}'' were so violent that Creator/RikMayall and Creator/AdrianEdmondson were hospitalised afterwards.

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* Creator/DeniseCrosby accidentally hit Creator/EddieMurphy with a baseball bat for real on ''Film/FortyEightHours''.
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRobinHood'': While filming Robin Hood's escape from the castle, Creator/BasilRathbone was knocked down and trampled by extras, causing a spear wound in his right foot that required eight stitches to close.
* Production on ''Film/AeonFlux'' was delayed for over a month while Creator/CharlizeTheron recuperated from a neck injury she sustained while slipping during stunt training.
* Creator/MichelleYeoh, who usually performs her own stunts, was seriously injured during shooting of ''Ah Kam'' when she misjudged an 18-foot jump off a bridge onto a truck. She fractured a vertebra and was in traction for a month. The sequence can be seen at the end of the film.
* Creator/LaurenceHarvey was injured making ''Film/TheAlamo1960'' when a cannon recoiled while firing, with one of the wheels rolling over his foot, fracturing it. He did not reveal his injury until filming of the scene was completed.
* Creator/MartinSheen really cut his hand after punching the mirror in ''Film/ApocalypseNow''. And that was before he had a heart attack.
* Creator/CharlizeTheron cracked two teeth while filming ''Film/AtomicBlonde''.
* ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'':
** ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'': During a "hoverboard" stunt scene, stuntwoman Cheryl Wheeler-Dixon was accidentally bounced off a pillar before falling thirty feet onto concrete, sustaining serious facial and wrist injuries.
** ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'': The scene of Creator/MichaelJFox being hanged wasn't acting. He actually ''was'' near hung to death there. He was quickly cut down when Creator/RobertZemeckis noticed the "acting" was getting a little too real.
* Creator/BarbaraStanwyck accidentally hit Kathleen Howard for real in ''Film/BallOfFire'', fracturing her jaw. Stanwyck was mortified by the incident.
* Creator/CharltonHeston's stunt double on ''Film/{{Ben Hur|1959}}'' sustained a gash on his chin after being flipped out of his chariot during a chariot race scene.
* ''Film/ABetterTomorrow II'' had numerous stunt mishaps.
** Creator/ChowYunFat was almost blown up when the explosion outside the mansion door being more powerful than expected. Some of his hair was singed, and he was blasted forward. The shot in the film is his real reaction.
** Director Ronny Yu was the stunt double in the warehouse scene. He wrenched his back after slipping on water puddle while carrying Creator/DeanShek.
** The stuntman for Creator/LeslieCheung who performed the speedboat jump landed incorrectly and broke his foot.
* While filming ''Film/TheBigBoss'', Creator/BruceLee sprained his ankle badly while landing awkwardly from a jump. He couldn't move properly and was also racked with aches and fever and was having difficulty keeping food down. Even so, filming continued. His twisted ankle meant that he had to drag his injured leg, so in several scenes he had to be filmed in closeup. He also broke a glass in his hand very early on in production, resulting in a gash that required ten stitches and a large plaster, which is very noticeable throughout the movie, especially the scenes filmed at the ice factory, which was the first location filmed. While at the hospital in Bangkok, he caught flu and rapidly lost ten pounds.
* Creator/ErichVonStroheim worked as an extra on ''Film/TheBirthOfANation1915''. He fell off a roof and broke two ribs in one scene.
* Creator/DarylHannah chipped her elbow in eight places during the scene in ''Film/BladeRunner'' where she accidentally slipped on the pavement and smashed the window of a parked car.
* While filming a stunt scene for ''Film/BluesBrothers2000'', a car rolled onto two crew members, one of whom needed a leg amputation. Three months later, during filming for a car-crash sequence, stuntman Bob Minor suffered severe injuries to his head.
* Creator/BorisKarloff broke his hip filming his first scene in ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein'', which required a double.
* Stuntman Alf Joint was seriously injured while performing a stunt in which he jumped off a roof for ''Film/ABridgeTooFar''. He said of the experience that he felt he was being "pushed."
* Creator/SimonYam suffered burns to his face while filming the POW sequence in ''Film/BulletInTheHead''.
* ''Film/TheCannonballRun'' has a scene where Seymour is forced to drive his Aston Martin blindly and weave through traffic after his smokescreen springs a leak. A second take at higher speed resulted in the driver crashing into a van that was part of the traffic. Stuntwoman Heidi Von Beltz, who was in the passenger seat, was left paraplegic for the rest of her life.
* Creator/GregoryPeck accidentally hit Creator/RobertMitchum for real during their fight scene in ''Film/CapeFear''. Mitchum claimed to have felt the blow for days afterwards.
* P.J. Soles, who played Norma in the film, ended up with a ruptured eardrum after pressurized water from a hose sprayed her directly in the ear during the filming of the prom scene in ''Film/{{Carrie|1976}}''. She made a full recovery and Creator/BrianDePalma decided to leave the shot in the movie.
* While filming the trolley stunt for ''Film/CarryOnAgainDoctor'', Creator/JimDale was taken to hospital after his arm repeatedly banged against a delivery trolley, causing him to have an emergency operation. The next day, he was back at work doing a stunt where a hammock falls through a wooden floor.
* Creator/TomHanks cut his leg while filming ''Film/CastAway''. Two weeks later, the swelling on his leg persisted, and Hanks was confined to a hospital for three weeks to treat a staph infection that could have killed him from blood poisoning.
* While filming ''Film/CitizenKane'', Creator/OrsonWelles tripped down a staircase and chipped his anklebone, forcing him to use a wheelchair for the next two weeks. He also gashed his own hand during a scene where he destroyed a room. He quickly improvised, grabbing a curtain and using it to cover his bleeding hand while he completed the scene, which appears in the film.
* Creator/BurtReynolds had his jaw broken when he was hit in the face with a metal chair while filming a fight scene on ''Film/CityHeat''. He was restricted to a liquid diet and lost over thirty pounds by the time this movie wrapped. This led to an addiction to painkillers and his gaunt appearance let to rumours that he had AIDS.
* Creator/MalcolmMcDowell scratched one of his corneas and was temporarily blinded during the Ludovico Technique scene in ''Film/AClockworkOrange''. He suffered cracked ribs during filming of the humiliation stage show.
* ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'' had a few injuries onset; a stuntman crashed face-first into a camera while riding a horse, Sandahl Bergman (Valeria) had her finger badly sliced with a fiberglass sword during a fight scene, and Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger (Conan) was attacked by one of the dogs.
* While filming a fight scene with Puneet Issar for ''Coolie'', Creator/AmitabhBachchan was critically injured when he jumped over a table and the corner of the table struck his abdomen, resulting in a splenic rupture and blood loss. Filming was delayed for several months for Bachchan to recover from his injury.
* ''Film/{{The Count of Monte Cristo|2002}}'': Creator/JimCaviezel accidentally stabbed Creator/GuyPearce during their fight scene. Caviezel was horrified but Pearce spent the rest of the shoot bragging about it to anyone who would listen.
* During a fight scene for ''Film/CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon'', Creator/MichelleYeoh tore an ACL on her knee after a bad landing and had to be flown from China to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for surgery.
* Creator/BrandonLee somehow managed to cut his hand on a piece of sugarglass during the pawnshop scene in ''Film/TheCrow''.
* Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme accidentally wounded Jackson "Rock" Pinckney's eye during a swordfight scene in ''Film/{{Cyborg|1989}}'', permanently blinding him in that eye. He took Van Damme to court, and eventually won a settlement.
* ''Film/{{Deliverance}}'': Creator/BurtReynolds broke his coccyx while going down the rapids when the canoe capsized. Originally, a cloth dummy was used, but it looked too fake, like a dummy going over a waterfall. While Reynolds recovered, he asked, "How did it look?" Creator/JohnBoorman replied, "Like a dummy going over a waterfall".
* ''Franchise/DieHard'':
** Creator/BruceWillis lost two-thirds of his hearing after firing a gun loaded with extra-loud blanks from underneath a table for ''Film/DieHard''.
** Willis was injured during a fight scene for ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'' when he was kicked above his right eye by Creator/MaggieQ's stunt double, who was wearing stiletto heels. He was hospitalized and received seven stitches that ran through his right eyebrow and down into the corner of his eye. His stunt double Larry Rippenkroeger was knocked unconscious when he fell 25 feet from a fire escape to the pavement. Rippenkroeger suffered broken bones in his face, several broken ribs, a punctured lung, and fractures in both wrists. Owing to his injuries, production was temporarily shut down. Willis personally paid the hotel bills for Rippenkroeger's parents and visited him a number of times at the hospital.
* Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio played the role of Calvin Candie in ''Film/DjangoUnchained''. During one scene in a dining room, Candie gives a passionate speech, punctuated by slamming his hand on the table. However, one take had a shot glass under that hand, which shattered on impact, causing several glass shards to puncture his palm. Still in character, [=DiCaprio=] ignored the pain and blood, and continued his rant to the end of the take. His costars were horrified and amazed by [=DiCaprio's=] commitment to "the show must go on".
* ''Film/TheDoors1991'': Creator/ValKilmer broke his arm badly when he performed a jump from the stage into the crowd. The stuntman failed to catch him, leaving Kilmer with an abnormal growth on his right elbow.
* Creator/PeterSellers was originally cast as Major Kong in ''Film/DrStrangelove'', until he injured his ankle while filming a take in the cockpit set.
* Creator/JurgenProchnow suffered first- and second-degree burns to his face while filming his death scene in ''Film/Dune1984''. To achieve this effect, a tube connected to a pump was attached to a prosthetic cheek over Prochnow's face. However, a malfunction caused heat to build up inside the fake cheek and spill near molten goo on Prochnow's face once it was torn open.
* When filming ''Film/TheEagle2011'' in a freezing river, a crew member forgot to mix the hot water with the river water during filming; as a result, Creator/ChanningTatum was scalded with boiling water that burned the skin off the tip of his penis.
* Stuntman Bennie E. Dobbins suffered a concussion when knocked off his feet during the filming of a flood scene in ''Film/{{Earthquake}}''. This was used in the film. Also, multiple stunt people suffered minor injuries during filming of a crashing elevator.
* Creator/JackNicholson accidentally broke one of Creator/PeterFonda's ribs while trying to balance himself on the motorcycle for ''Film/EasyRider''.
* While filming the sai/sword fight in ''Film/{{Elektra}}'', Creator/JenniferGarner accidentally got her knuckles sliced by Creator/WillYunLee. She got her knuckles patched up, and when she and Lee resumed, he subsequently sliced her again in the exact same spot.
* While filming their fight scene in ''Film/EnterTheDragon'', Bob wall accidentally cut Creator/BruceLee's wrist with the breakaway bottles. After the wound healed, Lee legitimately kicked Wall during the re-shoot with such force that an extra broke his arm trying to catch Wall.
* While filming ''Film/TheEvilDead1981'', Creator/BruceCampbell twisted his ankle on a root while running down a steep hill. Creator/SamRaimi and Rob Tapert decided to tease him by poking his injury with sticks, thus causing Campbell to have an obvious limp in some scenes.
* Creator/EllenBurstyn received a permanent spinal injury while making ''Film/TheExorcist''. In the sequence where she is thrown away from her possessed daughter, a harness jerked her hard away from the bed. She fell on her coccyx and screamed in pain.
* Creator/VinDiesel's stunt double Joe Watts sustained a serious head injury after a major fall during filming ''Film/{{F9}}'' at the Warner Bros. Studios in Leavesden, Hertfordshire. The stunt involved the stunt double jumping from a balcony using safety wiring. The stunt double had to be airlifted to the hospital where he was placed in induced coma following the event.
* ''Film/Frankenstein1931'': Creator/BorisKarloff, who played the Monster, suffered a back injury carrying Colin Clive's Dr. Frankenstein up the windmill stairs in the iconic climax. He would require several surgeries on his back for the remainder of his life.
* Creator/VincentDOnofrio gained so much weight for ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' that he twisted his knee during filming of the boot-camp scenes, injuring it so badly, it required surgical reconstruction.
* While filming ''Film/Fury2014'' in Oxfordshire, a stuntman was accidentally stabbed in the shoulder by a bayonet during rehearsals.
* During an explosion-effects misfire on ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'', Creator/SiennaMiller's suit caught fire, igniting the area between her breasts.
* Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio accidentally broke Creator/DanielDayLewis' nose while filming their fight scene in ''Film/GangsOfNewYork''.
* ''Film/TheGeneral'':
** Several National Guardsmen, who were employed as extras for the Civil War battle scenes, were injured by mishaps caused by misfired muskets or explosions.
** Creator/BusterKeaton was knocked unconscious when he stood too close to a cannon firing. Assistant director Harry Barnes was accidentally hit in the face by a blank charge.
** Train brakeman Fred Lowry sued the production for US$2,900 after his foot was crushed when it was run over by a locomotive wheel during filming of one of the railway scenes.
* During filming of the battle scenes for ''Film/{{Gettysburg}}'' on Little Round Top, Bradley Egen, an extra playing a Union soldier, was unintentionally struck in the head by the butt of a musket and suffered a mild concussion.
* Creator/TaylorHickson crashed through a glass door while filming a scene for ''Film/{{Ghostland}}'', causing massive injuries to her face and requiring multiple reconstructive surgeries. She now has a permanent facial scar as a result of the incident.
* ''Film/TheGodfather'':
** Creator/AlPacino injured his knee while filming a scene where he gets into a car after the restaruant hit, which ended up being cut. The cane that Sonny toys with that we assume belongs to Vito was actually Pacino's.
** When Sonny beats up Carlo, Creator/JamesCaan actually hit Gianni Russo, breaking two of his ribs and chipping his elbow.
* While making ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', Creator/RussellCrowe lost all feeling in his right forefinger for two years after a sword fight, aggravated an Achilles tendon injury, broke a foot bone, cracked a hip bone, and popped a few bicep tendons out of their sockets. He was also hit in the face by tree branches, hence the scars in the opening scene.
* Creator/MichaelImperioli was hospitalised while filming his death scene in ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}''. He broke a glass in his hand and had to be rushed to the emergency room. When doctors saw what appeared to be a gunshot wound in his chest, they tried to treat it. When Imperioli told them what was really up, he was made to wait for three hours.
* While filming ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'', Creator/EliWallach was almost poisoned during filming when he accidentally drank from a bottle of acid that a film technician had set next to his soda bottle. He drank milk afterwards and filmed a scene with a mouthful of sores.
* An accident while filming the "Greased Lightning" number on ''Film/{{Grease}}'' led to Creator/JeffConaway developing an addiction to painkillers.
* On ''Film/TheGreatWaldoPepper'', experienced stunt-pilot Frank Tallman, during filming of the aerial scenes, managed to perform two planned crashes without injury. However a third (accidental) crash occurred while landing a Nieuport biplane when a rudder bar broke at 400 feet, sending his aircraft nose-diving into a hill. Tallman survived but suffered two cracked vertebrae, required 58 stitches, and had to be taken off filming for two weeks.
* Creator/DavidNiven almost drowned during filming of an ocean storm scene inside a large water tank for ''Film/TheGunsOfNavarone''. He sustained a cut lip that led the actor being hospitalized with sepsis, which halted production on the film for a month. He insisted on returning to complete filming of his scenes before he had fully recovered, later causing a relapse of his illness that resulted in another seven weeks in hospital.
* While filming a rooftop scene for ''Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers'', Ellie Cornell accidentally slipped and her torso was cut by a large nail. She lost a large amount of blood but recovered, going on to continue on with the film.
* Australian stuntman Scott [=McLean=] suffered critical brain damage while filming ''Film/TheHangoverPartII'' in Bangkok after a taxi he was leaning out of the window of failed to dodge another vehicle, causing his head to collide with it. Creator/WarnerBros then issued a statement stating him was put into a medically induced coma, and were reportedly paying his hospital bills. He soon recovered, stating he had suffered "likely permanent brain and physical injuries" before suing the studio for unspecified damages.
* During the hallway shoot-out in ''Film/HardBoiled'', Creator/TonyLeung was cut in the eye by a shard of glass. If you pay attention, Leung suddenly covers his face with his arm, an indication of when he was hit with the glass. He was given a day off to get medical attention and returned to the set to finish filming without problems.
* ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'': David Holmes, Creator/DanielRadcliffe's stunt double, suffered a major spinal injury after he was caught in an explosion that was part of the stunt, leaving him paraplegic for life.
* Creator/RonPerlman broke a rib while filming the subway scene in ''Film/Hellboy2004''. He jumped onto a train that was coming towards him at about forty-five miles per hour.
* Creator/ChristopherLambert refused to use a fake sword for the fight scenes in ''Film/HighlanderIITheQuickening''. In his first scene with it, he cut his finger to the bone and Creator/MichaelIronside dislocated his jaw in the dome fight. After these accidents, Lambert agreed to use a plastic sword. While filming their duel, Lambert chipped one of Ironside's teeth, while Ironside inadvertently chopped off part of Lambert's finger. Both men recovered from their injuries, but Ironside said precision thrusts and parries were impossible when wielding a twenty-two-pound broadsword.
* While filming the chase scene for ''The Horror of Party Beach'', members of a local motorcycle club were hired to play a bike gang. Not wanting to be in the back of the field, one of the members sped up to the front and collided with the actor playing the gang leader, triggering a pileup that injured the actor and several bikers. Meanwhile, a police car responding to the incident was involved in its own crash.
* Stuntman Bob Morgan, husband of Yvonne De Carlo, was seriously injured and lost a leg during a break in filming a gunfight on a moving train for ''Film/HowTheWestWasWon''. Chains holding logs on a flatbed car broke, crushing Morgan as he crouched beside them.
* Film/JamesBond:
** ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'':
*** While scouting locations in Argyll, Scotland, for that day's filming of the climactic boat chase, Creator/TerenceYoung's helicopter crashed into the water with art director Michael White and a cameraman aboard. The craft sank into 40-50 feet of water, but all escaped with minor injuries. Despite the calamity, Young was behind the camera for the full day's work.
*** Creator/DanielaBianchi's driver fell asleep during the commute to a 6 am shoot and crashed the car. Her face was bruised and her scenes had to be delayed for two weeks while the facial contusions healed
*** During an explosion for the ­boat scene, three stuntmen were injured and Creator/WalterGotell suffered burns to his eyelids.
** ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'':
*** Harold Sakata accidentally gave Creator/SeanConnery a back injury while filming their fight scene. The incident delayed filming, and Connery allegedly used the injury to get a better deal out of the producers for the next 007 movie
*** Sakata was badly burned when filming his death scene, where Oddjob was electrocuted by Bond. Sakata, however, kept holding onto his hat with determination, despite his pain, until Creator/GuyHamilton called "Cut!"
** While filming the Little Nellie battle for ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'' in Miyazaki Prefecture, aerial cameraman John Jordan, who was standing on the landing strut of the camera helicopter, was struck in the foot by the autogyro's blade. Although doctors in the area were able to reattach the foot, he had it amputated when he returned to the UK.
** Creator/RogerMoore injured his teeth and knee on his first day of shooting on ''Film/LiveAndLetDie''. Fortunately, he was filming the boat chase, so he was largely seated.
** Moore had a near-miss on ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''. He decided at the last minute that it would be much more dramatic if he was sitting in the chair, instead of standing behind it when the gun underneath the dining table was fired. The special effects team had only reinforced the back of the chair for the original planned shot, which meant Moore risked serious injury if he didn't leap away in time.
** On ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'', Cassandra Harris' stunt double was injured when she was hit by the dune buggy during her death scene.
** Moore's stunt double on ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'', Martin Grace, had a serious accident while filming on the train. Hanging on the side of it, the train went into a non-assessed area of the track and he rammed into a pylon, seriously damaging his leg and hip and hospitalizing him for several months. He made a full recovery. In a similar vein, the actor who uses the buzz saw yo-yo broke his arm when he fell over the balcony onto Octopussy's bed. Despite his injury and having to wear a cast, he insisted on completing the rest of his scenes.
** For the scene in ''Film/LicenceToKill'' where Dario cuts at Bond's wrist binds, Creator/BenicioDelToro accidentally cut Creator/TimothyDalton's hand.
** Creator/PierceBrosnan injured his hand while doing the ladder stunt in ''Film/{{Goldeneye}}''. Also, Creator/FamkeJanssen claimed that he slammed her into a wall so hard she broke a rib.
** While filming a fight scene in ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'', a stuntman's helmet hit Brosnan in the face, which required eight stitches down one side of his face, leaving the crew no choice but to film many of his scenes from one side only.
** On ''Film/DieAnotherDay'', Brosnan suffered a knee injury jumping on to a hovercraft and Creator/HalleBerry needed surgery after debris from a smoke grenade flew into her eye.
** On ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'', Creator/DanielCraig got splinters from the piece of wood used to protect his genitals during the torture scene. He also lost two teeth in a fight scene. The damage was so severe that Craig's dentist had to be flown in from London to fix caps into his mouth.
** On ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'', Craig suffered an injury to his face, which required four stitches, another to his shoulder, which required six surgical screws to be inserted in an operation, and his arm in a sling, and then his hand was injured when one of his finger tips was sliced off. He laughed these off, noting they did not delay filming, and joked his finger wound would enable him to have a criminal career (though it had grown back when he made this comment). He also had minor plastic surgery on his face.
** On ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', Craig ruptured both of his calf muscles during the rehearsal period, whereupon rescheduling took place requiring two weeks rest for his injuries.
** On ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', Craig was injured at least twice during principal photography. He suffered a knee injury when filming in Austria, which required him to spent most of the shoot in a leg brace that was removed in post-production. He then hit his head on the interior of an Aston Martin [=DB10=].
** Craig sustained an ankle injury while filming ''Film/NoTimeToDie'' in Jamaica and subsequently underwent minor surgery. In a separate filming accident, a controlled explosion caused exterior damage to the 007 Stage at Creator/PinewoodStudios and left a crew member with minor injuries.
* Creator/DonaldSutherland was struck by a car while filming a scene of him running for ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1978''.
* While filming the closing scene of ''Film/JackassNumberTwo'', Ryan Dunn was performing a stunt with Bam Margera in which both of them are pulled out of shot by a running horse with a rope tied around their feet. Dunn dropped straight onto his shoulder, causing damage to the muscles and leading to a life-threatening blood clot near his heart and brain. While recovering from that injury and lyme disease, Dunn fell into depression and reclusion, isolating himself for two years before returning to Jackass.
* Sean Kanan suffered internal bleeding after doing 20 takes of being thrown out a door and landing on his stomach for ''Film/TheKarateKidPartIII''. He collapsed at a Las Vegas hotel four days after shooting the scene and was discovered to have two quarts of blood pooled in his abdomen.
* While filming a fight scene for ''Film/KickAss2'', Creator/ChloeGraceMoretz's stunt double suffered a head injury when she was thrown into a wall by Olga Kurkulina.
* Near the end of filming ''Film/KillBill'', Creator/UmaThurman was injured in a crash while filming the scene in which the Bride drives to Bill. She was uncomfortable driving the car and asked a stunt driver to do it, but Creator/QuentinTarantino assured her that the car and road were safe. She lost control of the car and hit a tree, suffering a concussion and damage to her knees. Thurman requested the crash footage, but Creator/{{Miramax}} would only release it, in Thurman's words, if she signed a document "releasing them of any consequences of [Thurman's] future pain and suffering". Tarantino was apologetic, but he and Thurman were acrimonious for years afterwards; she said after the accident she "went from being a creative contributor and performer to being like a broken tool". Miramax released the footage in 2018 after Thurman went to the police following the accusations of sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein.
* Creator/ChowYunFat was injured during the filming of the church shootout in ''Film/TheKiller'', when a piece of plaster cut his face, missing his eye by an inch. You can see the cut during the part where Jeff and Li talk before leaving the church.
* Creator/PeterOToole was often injured while making ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia''. He received third-degree burns, sprained both ankles, tore ligaments in both his hip and thigh, broke his thumb, dislocated his spine, fractured his skull, was bitten by a camel, sprained his neck, tore a groin muscle, and was concussed twice. He also seriously injured his hand during filming by punching through the window of a caravan while drunk. A brace or bandage can be seen on his left thumb during the first train attack scene, presumably due to this incident.
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' trilogy resulted in several injuries for many cast members, including bruises and broken bones.
** Creator/ViggoMortensen is the absolute king of this though; he cracked a front tooth (with the crew insisting he go to a dentist rather than glue the broken bit on to keep filming), nearly drowned floating down a river and broke his toe kicking a metal helmet (he incorporated his scream of agony into his acting when Aragorn is grieving over the apparent deaths of Merry and Pippin, with that take being the one in the finished film). Off-set, Mortensen also managed to get a black eye while surfing, so he had to be filmed in profile for many of the Moria scenes until the bruising healed.
** Creator/OrlandoBloom broke a rib when he fell off a horse.
** Creator/BernardHill got his ear sliced in two during the Battle of Helms Deep.
** Creator/LivTyler accidentally stabbed herself in the thigh with a sword.
** Creator/SeanAstin was injured twice. First, he stepped on a piece of glass in a river that went through his prosthetic foot and required him to be airlifted to hospital. Secondly, Creator/AndySerkis pulled his wig so hard it gave him a hairline fracture.
* One of the more spectacular stunts in ''Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior'' was actually a serious accident. One of the motorcycle-riding raiders hits a car, flies off the bike, smashes his legs against the car, and cartwheels through the air towards the camera. This was a real, genuine accident: the stuntman was supposed to just fly over the car without hitting it. But the nearly fatal incident looked so dramatic, that it was kept in the movie. The stuntman broke his leg badly, but survived.
* ''Film/TheManFromHongKong'':
** Creator/JimmyWangYu was injured during filming when he crashed his hang glider into rocks in Sydney Harbor. He fell 100 feet from the disabled glider onto a sand dune. The accident left him knocked unconscious and he was absent from filming for two days.
** Creator/GeorgeLazenby did the stunt where his arm catches fire and goes on fighting himself - only for it to go wrong when he was unable to get his burning jacket off. The take of him struggling is kept in the movie. He received minor burns to his arm from doing this stunt.
** A sound recordist was injured during production filming when he broke his ankle whilst a stuntman also broke his foot.
** Two stunt men were injured in a car crash whilst filming the car chase sequence and they were both hospitalized.
** Brian Trenchard-Smith had an accident during filming when he was hit in the eye with chemical spray.
* Music/FrankSinatra injured his hand during the filming of his fight scene with Creator/HenrySilva in ''Film/TheManchurianCandidate''. Accounts vary as to whether it was a broken finger (according to his daughter Nancy) or a broken wrist (according to other sources), but all agree that he carried on filming through the injury and it never healed properly as a result.
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'': While performing a 30-foot fall from a building, stuntman Jeremy Fitzgerald slammed into a pile of bricks and tore off a chunk of his scalp.
** ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'': Creator/JaimieAlexander suffered severe injuries when she slipped off a metal staircase during a rainy morning on the set. The fall caused her to slip a disc in her thoracic spine and chip 11 of her vertebrae, as well as dislocate her left shoulder and tear a rhomboid on her right side. The injuries took her out of filming for a month.
* ''Film/TheMatrix'':
** Creator/CarrieAnneMoss twisted her ankle while shooting an action scene, but decided not to tell anyone until after filming, so she wouldn't be re-cast.
** On ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'', Moss broke her leg training for a wire stunt, Creator/LaurenceFishburne fractured an arm in another training incident and Creator/HugoWeaving put out a disc in his neck while being pulled back on a wire.
* Film/MaximumOverdrive'''s director of photography Armando Nannuzzi was seriously injured when a radio-controlled lawnmower used in a scene went out of control and struck a block of wood used as a camera support, shooting out wood splinters. The splinters were fired at Nannuzzi's face, resulting in him losing an eye. He sued Creator/StephenKing for $18 million in damages due to unsafe working practices. The suit was settled out of court.
* Creator/DylanOBrien nearly lost his life after being struck by a vehicle while filming an action scene for ''Film/MazeRunnerTheDeathCure''. This left him several injuries including brain trauma, and forced the production to be shut down for six months.
* Film/MightyJoeYoung'''s director of photography Don Peterman and camera operator Ray de la Motte were injured while preparing a crane shot in July 1997 in Thousand Oaks, California. Both suffered extensive neck and head injuries.
* Creator/HilarySwank contracted a bacterial infection from a blister she developed on her foot during training for ''Film/MillionDollarBaby''. The infection was so serious that she almost had to be hospitalized for three weeks. Catching the infection in the nick of time, she instead chose to take a week off for medicated rest and didn't tell anyone about the injury, because she didn't believe it was in character.
* ''Film/MobyDick'': Creator/GregoryPeck injured his kneecap, Richard Basehart broke his ankle while jumping into a longboat and Leo Genn slipped a disk and caught pneumonia before shooting had finished.
* ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'':
** During filming of the battle between Liu Kang and Reptile, Creator/RobinShou fractured his ribs after multiple takes of hitting the pillar.
** Creator/BridgetteWilson dislocated her shoulder while performing a stunt; she was quickly able to continue working when paramedics put it back into place.
** Creator/LindenAshby recalled urinating blood after being kicked in the kidney.
* Production on ''Film/MoulinRouge'' halted for two weeks after Creator/NicoleKidman fractured two ribs and injured her knee while rehearsing a dance routine. Many of the scenes where she is seen only from the chest up, including "a real actress," were shot while she was in a wheelchair.
* Creator/WinonaRyder broke her arm in three places while filming a bike-riding scene in ''Film/MrDeeds''.
* Creator/ChristopherLee really suffered making ''Film/{{The Mummy|1959}}'':
** A door through which he was supposed to crash was accidentally bolted by a grip before the scene was shot. Lee's shoulder was dislocated when he broke down the door, but the shot remains in the movie.
** He was burned by squib marks and threw out his back carrying the girl.
** He also injured his knees and shins while doing scenes in the studio-tank "swamp". He couldn't see where the various pipes and fittings under the swampy water were.
* ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy'':
** ''Film/{{The Mummy|1999}}'': During the hanging scene where Evey barters for Rick's life as he's being hung in Cairo's prison for an unspecified crime, Creator/BrendanFraser (who played Rick O'Connell) nearly choked to death, as the rope around his neck had too much tension on it. He ended up losing consciousness and was woken up by an EMT.
** On ''Film/TheMummyReturns'', Fraser tore a spinal disk, cracked a rib, and injured his knees. Creator/DwayneJohnson suffered from food poisoning and sunstroke. He lost over 10 pounds and said it was "the worst I have ever felt in my life".
* Creator/JulietteLewis accidentally broke Creator/TomSizemore's nose while filming their fight scene in ''Film/NaturalBornKillers''. Sizemore just carried on with the scene.
* Dale Van Sickel, first President of the Stuntmen Association, was driving a car that was supposed to go off the end of a wharf for ''No Deposit, No Return''. Oil had been applied to the wharf to facilitate the stunt, but too much was put down. The car went out of control and hit an abutment. Van Sickel suffered brain damage, and remained an invalid for the rest of his life. Before the accident he had been semi-retired, only taking a few jobs a year "to keep from getting stale". His family sued Walt Disney Productions.
* ''Film/{{The Omen|1976}}'': Creator/GregoryPeck accidentally slammed a car door on the hand of Guglielmo Spoletini, who portrayed the Italian taxi driver, which almost required his finger to be amputated.
* Creator/JamesCaviezel really suffered making ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist''. He sustained gashes to his back from multiple whippings, hypothermia, and a separated shoulder from carrying a giant cross. He was also struck by lightning before filming the Sermon of the Mount scene.
* While filming the climactic speedboat fight scene for ''Film/PatriotGames'', Creator/SeanBean sustained a gash above his left eyebrow after Creator/HarrisonFord struck him with a metal hook.
* While filming ''Film/PearlHarbor'', a stunt plane dressed like a Japanese fighter crashed during a flight over the set. The pilot survived the crash escaping serious injuries.
* ''Film/{{The Phantom of the Opera|2004}}'':
** A worker suffered severe injuries when he was thrown from scaffolding that was not properly secured on the set of the film.
** Creator/PatrickWilson fell off his horse approximately three times while filming his own stunt scene, riding the horse bareback. He also nearly drowned while filming the water scenes in the lake.
* While filming the scene in ''Film/{{Popeye}}'' where Pappy throws Popeye the can of spinach, Creator/RayWalston hit Creator/RobinWilliams in the head so hard that he required several stitches in his scalp and delayed filming for several weeks.
* ''Film/{{Predator}}'':
** The stuntman who doubled for Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger for the fall into the river blew out his knee performing this particular stunt.
** Creator/JohnMcTiernan broke a wrist while on location.
* While filming ''Film/PremiumRush'' in the streets of New York City, Creator/JosephGordonLevitt lost control of his bicycle and collided with the back of a taxicab before flying towards its rear windscreen. He required 31 stitches after his right forearm was slashed by the impact.
* When Count Rugen hits Westley over the head in ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', Creator/CaryElwes told Creator/ChristopherGuest to go ahead and hit him for real. Guest hit him hard enough to shut down production for a day while Elwes went to the hospital.
* Creator/ThomasJane accidentally stabbed Wrestling/KevinNash for real while filming their fight scene in ''Film/ThePunisher2004''.
* Creator/RobertDeNiro accidentally broke Creator/JoePesci's rib while assaulting him in ''Film/RagingBull''. Pesci would later break that same rib again while filming his death scene in ''Film/{{Casino}}''.
* ''Film/RebelWithoutACause'':
** Real switchblades were used in the knife fight. Creator/JamesDean and Corey Allen wore chainmail under their clothes. Even so, Dean was injured several times while shooting the scene.
** Dean badly bruised his hand during the scene where he punches the desk. He had to wear an elastic bandage for a week.
* On the first day of shooting ''Film/RedRiver'', Creator/MontgomeryClift burned himself on his thigh with a blank cartridge practising while quick draws.
* ''Film/ResidentEvilTheFinalChapter'': The stunt double for Creator/MillaJovovich, Olivia Jackson, lost her left arm after being severely injured following an on-set motorcycle crash with a camera crane at high speeds.
* During the filming of ''Film/NationalVelvet'', Creator/ElizabethTaylor badly injured her back when she was thrown from a horse. Although the movie became her StarMakingRole, this injury is often blamed for the chronic back pain that would plague her for the rest of her life.
* While filming their fight scene in ''Film/RoadHouse'', Marshall R. Teague threw a real log at Creator/PatrickSwayze, thinking it was a breakway prop. By the end, Swayze was covered in bruises and had two broken ribs and a busted knee.
* While filming the climax of ''Film/Scarface1983'', Creator/AlPacino burned his hand when he placed on the gun barrel. Even though it was loaded with blanks, the injury was enough to shut down production for a week.
* ''Film/{{Scream}}'':
** In the [[Film/Scream1996 first movie]], Creator/SkeetUlrich (Billy) has a scene where Sidney attacks him with an umbrella. However Skeet has a wire in his body from a surgery long ago that when touched, sends a nasty shock through his body. The stunt woman playing Sidney couldn't see well in the Ghostface getup when doing the scene. So when she attacked him, she accidentally hit the wire and that scream of his is very much real.
** In ''Film/Scream3'', Scott Foley (Roman) likewise took an injury in the climax when Creator/NeveCampbell struck him in the back with an ice pick, missing the pads on his back. Again, that scream of pain is real.
* Creator/JohnHawkes suffered a severe disc injury on his back while filming ''Film/TheSessions''. He has confirmed that his "spine now has not enough movement."
* While filming the chase scene in ''Film/{{Se7en}}'', Creator/BradPitt slipped on the hood of a car and went through the windscreen, cutting his had in the process. The injury was added to the film, though, to Pitt's disappointment, the scene showing the injury was cut.
* ''Film/SherlockJr'':
** Creator/BusterKeaton grabs a water spout while walking on a moving boxcar train. The water unexpectedly flooded down on him much harder than anticipated, throwing him to the ground. The back of his neck slammed against a steel rail on the ground and caused him to black out. The pain was so intense that he had to stop shooting later that day and he had "blinding headaches" for weeks afterwards, but continued working, having a well-known high threshold for physical pain. It wasn't until 1935 that a doctor spotted a callus over a fracture in his top vertebra in an X-ray. The doctor informed Keaton that he had broken his neck during the accident nine years earlier and not realized it.
** While filming the climactic chase, the motorcycle Keaton was riding skidded and smashed into two cameras, knocking over Eddie Cline and throwing Keaton onto a nearby car.
* Leonard Sachs was injured while filming a scene in ''The Siege of Sidney Street'' that took place in a burning building. The room and all the props were coated with fire-proof jelly, as was the actor's shoulders and arms. However the special-effects crew neglected to apply the jelly to Sachs' head because to do so would have taken 20 minutes and the production was on a tight schedule. As a result, Sachs suffered burns to his hair and scalp.
* ''Film/{{Sliver}}'' cameraman Michael Benson suffered lung injuries after a helicopter crash left him trapped for two days inside a Hawaiian volcano crater. The crew aboard the helicopter was flying over an active volcano to shoot the film's original opening sequence, but the footage was lost in the crash.
* During the scene in ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'' where Spartacus drowns Marcellus in a cauldron of soup, Creator/KirkDouglas accidentally broke Charles [=McGraw=]'s jaw. His jaw struck the rim of the pot, sustaining a fracture but he managed to continue the scene nonetheless.
* Creator/WillemDafoe accidentally chipped Creator/TobeyMaguire's chin while filming their fight scene in ''Film/SpiderMan1''.
* Creator/JohnLeguizamo accidentally broke Creator/BobHoskins' finger while doing a vehicle stunt for ''Film/SuperMarioBros''. Hoskins also claimed to have been electrocuted, stabbed four times and very nearly drowned. "And that's just what happened to me!"
* During the torture scene in ''Film/{{Syriana}}'', Creator/GeorgeClooney suffered head and spinal injuries and memory loss when he hit his head on the floor after the torturer knocked his chair over. The impact ruptured his dura mater, resulting in loss of cerebrospinal fluid. The injury was so painful that he contemplated committing suicide while recovering.
* Creator/JudeLaw broke a rib filming his death scene in ''Film/TheTalentedMrRipley''.
* During the filming of a sand-storm scene in ''Film/TheTenCommandments'', an extra carrying a flaming torch tripped over and the torch set fire to the clothing of a young girl standing next to him. She only suffered minor burns thanks to the quick thinking of make-up artist Frank Westmore who raced over and tore off her burning costume. During the filming of the same scene, several Egyptian extras were stung by scorpions, or bitten by cobras, both of which had been blown out of their burrows in the sand by the artificially generated storm.
* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'':
** ''Film/TheTerminator'': Creator/LindaHamilton injured her ankle filming a chase scene. She wrapped it in tin foil.
** ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'': Hamilton suffered permanent hearing damage in one ear during filming when she fired a gun inside an elevator without using her ear plugs. She also injured her knees from falling on the ground during multiple re-shoots of her being hit with a nightstick by actor Ken Gibbel. Frustrated by Gibbel's refusal to hit her properly, she legitimately knocked him out with a broom handle during the escape scene. Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger nearly broke some fingers while twirling his shotgun with one hand. While there was a shotgun with a lever loop lengthened to fit his hand, he mistakenly picked up a standard-sized unit and injured his hand while attempting the stunt.
* ''Film/TheyCameToCordura'' has Creator/DickYork in a starring role. However, while riding on a railway handcar, York suffered torn muscles in his right side lower back. Though the tissues mostly healed, he was left in great pain thereafter, relying on painkillers to get through a day. The crew of ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' even built a sloped wall for him to lessen York's discomfort between takes.
* ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|1973}}'':
** Creator/OliverReed was stabbed in the throat while filming the fight near the windmill and almost died.
** Creator/MichaelYork had his leg cut in one duel and almost lost an eye in another. Reed took a sword to the hand. Frank Finlay was struck in the face by a two-by-four, and burned in separate fight scenes. Creator/ChristopherLee fared better than most of the cast, getting off with just a sprained knee and a pulled shoulder muscle. It got so bad that at one point, York remembers doubling for his injured stunt double. He later resorted to stuffing his script inside his clothes for protection.
** While filming their fight scene, Creator/FayeDunaway accidentally pushed Creator/RaquelWelch for real, causign her to fall and sprain her wrist.
* ''Film/TheThreeStooges'': Being the cornucopia of slapstick the series is, the Stooges were bound to have suffered injuries while making their films.
** In ''Pardon My Scotch'', Curly accidentally saws a wooden table that Moe happens to be standing on in half, causing Moe to fall when he tries to walk across it. In the take you see on screen, Moe Howard broke three ribs in that fall, and he managed to complete the take before passing out.
** In ''Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise'' and ''The Three Troubledoers'', Moe got hit in the face with a dirty substance (black goo in the former, soot in the latter), and he had to receive medical attention because it got under his eyelids.
** In ''Gem of a Jam'', one gag has Curly lying on an operating table that gets titled downward towards a window, resulting in him almost falling out. While filming the scene, the table tilted too fast and Curly hit his head on the windowsill, giving him a gash in the back of his head that required nine stitches.
** In ''Heavenly Daze'', Larry Fine really got hurt when he got a fountain pen lodged in his forehead.
** In ''Self-Made Maids'', the Stooges employ ActingForTwo by playing female versions of themselves in drag. While filming a scene where the girls skip out the door, Moe slipped and sprained his ankle. In an act of quick thinking, Moe saved the take by hopping into the bed in the next room to get himself out of the shot, which resulted in him hitting his head on the bedpost and falling unconscious.
* When Creator/When Richard Harris was roughed up behind the scrum in ''This Sporting Life'', rugby league legend Derek Turner, who was playing the character who punches him, was asked by director Lindsay Anderson to make the contact look real. So he did. He punched Harris for real and knocked him out completely. Shooting for the day had to be stopped while Harris recovered.
* Creator/ChowYunFat cut his finger on the front sight of a Sterling Mk IV submachine gun during a stunt for ''Film/TigerOnBeat''.
* Some stuntpeople on ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'' suffered broken bones, while Creator/KateWinslet developed bruises so impressive that the makeup department took pictures for future reference. She also chipped a bone in her elbow.
* An extra on ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'' was seriously injured during a stunt in Hammond, Indiana. Owing to a failed weld, a steel cable snapped from a car being towed and hit the extra's car, damaging her skull. The extra, identified as Gabriela Cédillo, had to undergo brain surgery. The injury has left her permanently brain-damaged, paralyzed on her left side and her left eye stitched shut. In May 2012, it was revealed that a $18 million settlement had been reached between Paramount and the Cedillo family. As a result of this accident, recycled footage from ''Film/TheIsland'' was used instead, with CG robots inserted into the footage.
* Fittingly, Creator/BradPitt tore his left Achilles tendon while filming ''Film/{{Troy}}''.
* Creator/ElizaDushku broke several ribs while doing a stunt for ''Film/TrueLies''. This was a result of the stunt co-ordinator having molested her.
* ''Film/TrueRomance'': Creator/DennisHopper was concerned about being shot with a prop gun so close against his head for fear of being burned by the barrel. Creator/TonyScott assured him the gun was one hundred percent safe, and even tested it by having the prop man fire it against his own forehead. But upon firing the prop gun, the barrel extended about a third of an inch and Scott ended up on the floor with blood pouring from the wound.
* Creator/AudreyHepburn was thrown off a horse while rehearsing a scene for ''Film/TheUnforgiven''. She suffered from two broken vertebrae, and later suffered a miscarriage, which has since been attributed to the accident. She was flown out of set and spent six weeks recovering at a hospital. When she returned, Hepburn wore a back brace for the rest of production, and her wardrobe was redesigned in order to hide the brace.
* Creator/SeanConnery was hospitalized after filming his death scene in ''Film/TheUntouchables'' when fake blood from the squibs went in his eyes. Creator/BrianDePalma had to beg Connery to do another take.
* While filming ''Film/{{Valkyrie}}'', the side of a vintage truck detached as the vehicle turned a sharp corner, causing a number of extras on board to fall out. One man was seriously injured and ten more suffered minor injuries. The extras involved later filed a lawsuit against the production.
* In the 1982 film adaptation of Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheWall'', Bob Geldof spontaneously grabbed a window frame covered in broken glass while shooting "One of My Turns" and accidentally slashed his palm open on-camera. The injury and its aftermath were worked into the film because Creator/AlanParker liked the effect; later shots of Geldof's character floating in the hotel pool even show him still bleeding out.
* Derren Nesbitt was injured on set whilst his death scene in ''Film/WhereEaglesDare''. The blood squib attached to him exploded with such force that he was temporarily blinded, though he made a quick recovery.
* ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'': In the candy forest room, Veruca Salt bashes a giant gobstopper against a jagged rock. While it is not acknowledged, her knee is bloody in this shot. Behind the scenes her actress, Julie Dawn Cole, actually did cut her knee on the rock, and still has a scar on her knee today.
* While filming the aerial combat scenes in ''Film/{{Wings}}'', stunt pilot Dick Grace was required to deliberately crash-land a Fokker D-VII, specially modified to "crumple" on impact. When the Fokker struck the ground, the landing gear failed to crumple, making the impact a heavier one than planned. This caused Grace's safety straps to break, sending his head through the instrument panel, leaving him with four crushed vertebrae and a broken neck. Amazingly, he spent only six weeks in the hospital and was again performing stunt work within a year.
* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'':
** As explained in the film's 75th anniversary tribute, the original actor to play the Tin Man was Creator/BuddyEbsen. His costume included aluminum powder dusted on his face to give him a "metallic" look; however, only a few weeks into shooting, the powder caused him severe lung issues. "One night I took a breath and nothing happened." He was rushed to the hospital and spent months recovering, while Jack Haley was hired to replace him -- and given aluminum ''paste'' on his face rather than powder.
** Creator/MargaretHamilton suffered serious burns beneath her copper-based face paint after being too close to the pyrotechnics that accompanied the Wicked Witch of the West's departure from Munchkinland.
* Film/XMenFilmSeries:
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': Creator/HughJackman was injured doing a stunt in the X-Jet that caused him to bleed.
** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'': Music/{{WillIAm}} scarred his knuckles after he accidentally punched the camera.
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!!Examples:

** ''Film/SnakeInTheEaglesShadow'': During a sword fight scene, Chan's co-star slashed him across the arm with [[NotSoFakePropWeapon what was supposed to be a prop sword with a blunted edge]], but was actually sharp. Chan screamed in pain but continued fighting, the camera kept rolling and the injury, with real blood spraying everywhere, ended up in the final cut.

* While filming a scene for ''Film/{{Ghostland}}'', Creator/TaylorHickson crashed through a glass door after striking it with her fist; she was told it would be safe but the glass shattered. This caused massive injuries to her face, requiring multiple reconstructive surgeries and leaving her with a permanent facial scar. Hickson ended up suing the film's producers over the incident.
* During an explosion-effects misfire on ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'', Creator/SiennaMiller's suit caught fire, igniting the area between her breasts.
* While making ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', Creator/RussellCrowe lost all feeling in his right forefinger for two years after a sword fight, aggravated an Achilles tendon injury, broke a foot bone, cracked a hip bone, and popped a few bicep tendons out of their sockets. He was also hit in the face by tree branches, hence the scars in the opening scene.

*** While scouting locations in Argyll, Scotland, for that day's filming of the climactic boat chase, Creator/TerenceYoung's helicopter crashed into the water with art director Michael White and a cameraman aboard. The craft sank into 40?50 feet of water, but all escaped with minor injuries. Despite the calamity, Young was behind the camera for the full day's work.

* While filming a scene for ''Film/{{Ghostland}}, Creator/TaylorHickson crashed through a glass door after striking it with her fist; she was told it would be safe but the glass shattered. This caused massive injuries to her face, requiring multiple reconstructive surgeries and leaving her with a permanent facial scar. Hickson ended up suing the film's producers over the incident.

* During an explosion-effects misfire on ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'', Creator/SiennaMiller's suit caught fire, igniting the area between her breasts.

* Creator/TaylorHickson crashed through a glass door while filming a scene for ''Film/{{Ghostland}}'', causing massive injuries to her face and requiring multiple reconstructive surgeries. She now has a permanent facial scar as a result of the incident.

* While making ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', Creator/RussellCrowe lost all feeling in his right forefinger for two years after a sword fight, aggravated an Achilles tendon injury, broke a foot bone, cracked a hip bone, and popped a few bicep tendons out of their sockets. He was also hit in the face by tree branches, hence the scars in the opening scene.

* An accident while filming the "Greased Lightning" number on ''Film/{{Grease}}'' led to Creator/JeffConway developing an addiction to painkillers.

* While filming the original ''Series/KamenRider'', the actor behind the protagonist, Creator/HiroshiFujioka, initially did his own stunts in the suit. However, this came back to bite him when filming a motorcycle scene, as his leg got stuck on a wire, followed by the bike coming back and hitting him, shattering his leg. This necessitated Fujioka's character being written out and replaced with someone else taking up the mantle of Kamen Rider. Although Fujioka got better and returned to the show as the protagonist, with few exceptions, no actor for Kamen Rider has done their own stunts since.

* While filming the original ''Series/KamenRider'', the actor behind the protagonist, Creator/HiroshiFujioka, initially did his own stunts in the suit. However, this came back to bite him when filming a motorcycle scene, as his leg got stuck on a wire, followed by the bike coming back and hitting him, shattering his leg. This necessitated Fujioka's character being written out and replaced with someone else taking up the mantle of Kamen Rider. Although Fujioka got better and returned to the show as the second half of the Double Riders, with few exceptions, no actor for Kamen Rider has done their own stunts since.

* During filming ''Film/{{Fury}}'' in Oxfordshire, a stuntman was accidentally stabbed in the shoulder by a bayonet during rehearsals.

* While filming ''Film/TheEvilDead1981'', Creator/Bruc Campbell twisted his ankle on a root while running down a steep hill. Creator/SamRaimi and Rob Tapert decided to tease him by poking his injury with sticks, thus causing Campbell to have an obvious limp in some scenes.

* When filming ''Film/TheEagle'' in a freezing river, a crew member forgot to mix the hot water with the river water during filming; as a result, Creator/ChanningTatum was scalded with boiling water that burned the skin off the tip of his penis.

* Creator/EricVonStroheim worked as an extra on ''Film/TheBirthOfANation1915''. He fell off a roof and broke two ribs in one scene.

* While filming the original ''Series/KamenRider'', the actor behind the protagonist, Creator/HiroshiFujioka, initially did his own stunts in the suit. However, this came back to bite him when filming a motorcycle scene, as his leg got stuck on a wire, followed by the bike coming back and hitting him, shattering his leg. This necessitated Fujioka's character being written out and replaced with someone else taking up the mantle of Kamen Rider. Although Fujioka got better and returned to the show as the second half of the Double Riders, with few exceptions, no lead actor for Kamen Rider has done their own stunts since.

** He herniated a disc in his back filming a fight scene in '''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'', forcing him to fly back to Los Angeles for an operation. He returned six weeks later.

** He and Creator/CarlWeathers really hit each other in ''Film/{{Rocky}}''. Stallone got cracked ribs, while Weathers got a broken nose - the opposite of their injuries in the movie.

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* Creator/CharltonHeston's stunt double on ''Film/BenHur1959'' sustained a gash on his chin after being flipped out of his chariot during a chariot race scene.

* P.J. Soles, who played Norma in the film, ended up with a ruptured eardrum after pressurized water from a hose sprayed her directly in the ear during the filming of the prom scene in ''Film/Carrie1976''. She made a full recovery and Creator/BrianDePalma decided to leave the shot in the movie.

* Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme accidentally wounded Jackson 'Rock' Pinckney's eye during a swordfight scene in ''Film/Cyborg1989'', permanently blinding him in that eye. He took Van Damme to court, and eventually won a settlement.

** On ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', Creator/DanielCraig got splinters from the piece of wood used to protect his genitals during the torture scene. He also lost two teeth in a fight scene. The damage was so severe that Craig's dentist had to be flown in from London to fix caps into his mouth.

** ''Film/TheAvengers2012'': While performing a 30-foot fall from a building, stuntman Jeremy Fitzgerald slammed into a pile of bricks and tore off a chunk of his scalp.

* Creator/ChristopherLee really suffered making ''Film/TheMummy1959'':

* ''Film/TheMummy1999'': During the hanging scene where Evey barters for Rick's life as he's being hung in Cairo's prison for an unspecified crime, Creator/BrendanFraser (who played Rick O'Connell) nearly choked to death, as the rope around his neck had too much tension on it. He ended up losing consciousness and was woken up by an EMT.
* On ''Film/TheMummyReturns'', Fraser tore a spinal disk, cracked a rib, and injured his knees. Creator/DwayneJohnson suffered from food poisoning and sunstroke. He lost over 10 pounds and said it was "the worst I have ever felt in my life".

* ''Film/TheOmen1976'': Creator/GregoryPeck accidentally slammed a car door on the hand of Guglielmo Spoletini, who portrayed the Italian taxi driver, which almost required his finger to be amputated.

* ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'':

* Creator/LindaHamilton injured her ankle filming a chase scene for ''Film/TheTerminator''. She wrapped it in tin foil.
* Creator/JohnLeguizamo accidentally broke Creator/BobHoskins' finger while doing a vehicle stunt for ''Film/SuperMarioBros''. Hoskins also claimed to have been electrocuted, stabbed four times and very nearly drowned. "And that's just what happened to me!"
* During the torture scene in ''Film/{{Syriana}}'', Creator/GeorgeClooney suffered head and spinal injuries and memory loss when he hit his head on the floor after the torturer knocked his chair over. The impact ruptured his dura mater, resulting in loss of cerebrospinal fluid. The injury was so painful that he contemplated committing suicide while recovering.

* ''Film/TheThreeMusketeers1973'':

* Some stuntpeople on ''Film/Titanic1997'' suffered broken bones, while Creator/KateWinslet developed bruises so impressive that the makeup department took pictures for future reference. She also chipped a bone in her elbow.
* An extra on ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'' was seriously injured during a stunt in Hammond, Indiana. Owing to a failed weld, a steel cable snapped from a car being towed and hit the extra's car, damaging her skull. The extra, identified as Gabriela Cédillo, had to undergo brain surgery. The injury has left her permanently brain-damaged, paralyzed on her left side and her left eye stitched shut. In May 2012, it was revealed that a $18 million settlement had been reached between Paramount and the Cedillo family. As a result of this accident, recycled footage from ''Film/TheIsland'', was used instead, with CG robots inserted into the footage.

** As explained in the film's 75th anniversary tribute, the original actor to play the Tin Man was Creator/BuddyEbsen. His costume included aluminum powder dusted on his face to give him a 'metallic' look; however, only a few weeks into shooting, the powder caused him severe lung issues. "One night I took a breath and nothing happened." He was rushed to the hospital and spent months recovering, while Jack Haley was hired to replace him - and given aluminum ''paste'' on his face rather than powder.

* ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'' episode "Mandrake" featured Creator/HonorBlackman have a fight scene with wrestler Jackie Pallo. In one take, he accidentally knocked him out for four minutes (she forgot to feint first, then kick, and simply kicked him in the head, knocking him onto the concrete floor of the studio). The incident garnered plenty of publicity in the British press. Blackman was in tears when it happened and sat by him until he recovered.
* ''Series/Batwoman2019''

* Creator/JohnCho tore his ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) filming a ''Series/CowboyBebop2021'' night scene, which caused months-long delay in filming before they could resume.
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' had at least three instances.

* Creator/NormanReedus was injured ''three times''' during filming ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010''. First in 2015, while filming the episode "[[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS05E10Them Them]]" where he suffered a nasty cut on his arm that spilled. It was captured by the cameras, but didn't make the final cut. Then while filming the 11th and final season he suffered a cut on his face during a fight scene. In March 2022, while filming the final episodes, he suffered a concussion, though it is not known if it was during filming.

* ''Theatre/SpiderManTurnOffTheDark'' was such a TroubledProduction that the play's page in Wiki.TheOtherWiki has a subsection dedicated exclusively to cast injuries:

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** At the start of {{WebVideo/Bennett The Sage}}'s ''Manga/ElfenLied'' review. Sage has a skit where he was lured into a hotel conference room and being "beaten" severely[[note]](they were using wiffle ball bats and other harmless Improvisedweapons)[[/note]] by his fellow (at the time) co-creators, which culminated on someone breaking [[CombatCueStick a pool cue stick]] on his back. This was supposed to be faked, but the cue was broken several inches below the break spot. This ended up with Bennet actually taking the hit, which ended up leaving a long welt across his back.

** On ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', Craig was injured at least twice during principal photography. He suffered a knee injury when filming in Austria, which required him to spent most of the shoot in a leg brace that was removed in post-production. He then hit his head on the interior of an Aston Martin DB10.

* While filming ''Film/PearlHarbour'', a stunt plane dressed like a Japanese fighter crashed during a flight over the set. The pilot survived the crash escaping serious injuries.

* ''Film/RebelWithoutAClause'':

* ''Film/TheyCameToCordoba'' has Creator/DickYork in a starring role. However, while riding on a railway handcar, York suffered torn muscles in his right side lower back. Though the tissues mostly healed, he was left in great pain thereafter, relying on painkillers to get through a day. The crew of ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' even built a sloped wall for him to lessen York's discomfort between takes.

* ''Film/TrueRomane'': Creator/DennisHopper was concerned about being shot with a prop gun so close against his head for fear of being burned by the barrel. Creator/TonyScott assured him the gun was one hundred percent safe, and even tested it by having the prop man fire it against his own forehead. But upon firing the prop gun, the barrel extended about a third of an inch and Scott ended up on the floor with blood pouring from the wound.