History OnSetInjury / LiveActionFilms

* While filming ''Film/{{Nightcrawler}}'', Creator/JakeGyllenhaal severely cut his hand after he improvised smashing a mirror, resulting in him needing to go to hospital and get 42 stitches; he also needed to wear a cast while wrapping up filming (which is why in the first few scenes Lou often has his hands behind his back to hide the cast).

* 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.

* While filming a swordfight for ''The Dark Avenger'', Creator/ErrolFlynn accidentally cut Creator/ChristopherLee's hand so badly that his finger nearly came off and was permanently injured. Later, Lee cut off Flynn's wig while Flynn was still wearing it.

* 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/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'': Creator/HarrisonFord injured his back and was out for several weeks. To continue production, Creator/StevenSpielberg [[FakeShemp used Ford's stuntman Vic Armstrong to perform the action sequences (even the simpler ones Ford could do) from behind]], and Ford later filmed a few token close-ups.

* Creator/DonaldSutherland was struck by a car while filming a scene of him running for ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1978''.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

*** 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

* ''Film/SuperMarioBros'':

* Creator/DeniseCrosby accidentally hit Creator/EddieMurphy with a baseball bat for real on ''Film/FortyEightHours''.

** In ''Punch Drunks'', Larry steals a truck playing "Pop Goes the Weasel" to help Curly win his boxing match. The sound double who was on the truck broke his arm in the take that was used.

** In ''Heavenly Daze'', Larry Fine really got hurt when he got a fountain pen lodged in his forehead.

* 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.

* 2018's ''Action Point'' is a film with the dubious honor of giving the most injuries to Creator/JohnnyKnoxville on a single project (considering [[Series/{{Jackass}} his repertoire]], that says a lot), where the stunt work resulted in him suffering four concussions, whiplash, breaking his hand and meniscus, losing two teeth, requiring stitches over his right eye, and other injuries. Perhaps his nastiest was from filming the Alpine slide scene, where he crashed face-first into the ground -- after getting rushed to the emergency room and checking out later that night, he blew his nose, accidentally [[EyeScream popping his left eyeball of its socket]]. After receiving further treatment, Knoxville had to be shot for the last few days of filming on just the right side of his face.

** ''Jackass: The Movie'' features a "Department Store Boxing" stunt where Johnny Knoxville got [[CurbStompBattle a boxing beatdown]] by Eric "Butterbean" Esch, knocking his head onto the concrete floor, giving him a severe concussion that required stitches.

* 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.

* 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.

** 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=].

* 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/SpiderManFilmTrilogy'':

* 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.