History Main / OnSetInjury

* The reason ''Series/KungFu'' ended after three years was because Creator/DavidCarradine sustained too many injuries.

** He got into yet another car crash filming a car chase with Creator/EmilyBlunt for ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow''. Blunt -who was driving - accidentally crashed the car into a tree. Cruise suffered some bad bruises though luckily didn't receive more serious injuries, although Blunt joked about the time she "nearly killed Tom Cruise".

** 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.

** Creator/JamesMay suffered a severe concussion in Syria and had to be hospitalized when he was knocked down by a tow rope and cut his head on a rock. This ended up being incorporated into the episode, with Jeremy and Hammond incorporating some levity by greeting him in full-body veils once he gets out.

* One sketch on ''Theatre/TheDangerousBrothers'' required Creator/AdrianEdmondson to be set on fire. Unfortunately, [[JustForPun in the heat of the moment]], he forgot the safety word and as he rolled around on the floor screaming to be put out, one crewmember commented on his professionalism - because he didn't need the safety word!

** While filming "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E3TheSontaranExperiment The Sontaran Experiment]]", Creator/TomBaker slipped on some wet grass and broke his collarbone. The scarf came in handy for covering up his neckbrace.
** Creator/PeterDavison would later jokingly claim that the staff were actually attempting to kill him on "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E6TheCavesOfAndrozani The Caves of Androzani]]". Among these accidents are two notable instances:

** While filming another segment, Hammond was hospitalized after crashing a Rimac Concept One during a hill climbing event in Switzerland. He was able to escape the accident with a fractured knee, despite the car flipping and catching fire shortly afterwards. The crash footage was shown in the first episode of the second season.

** Creator/JamesMay suffered a severe concussion in Syria when he was knocked down by a tow rope and hit his head on a rock.
** During the Burma special, Hammond fell off a horse and had to be rushed to a hospital.

** ''Film/SuperCop'': Chan jumped from the top of a building onto a rope ladder suspended beneath a helicopter. The ladder then crashed into a billboard, breaking his shoulder.

** 'Film/EnterTheDragon'': Creator/BruceLe accidentally struck him in the face with one of his fighting sticks. He immediately apologized and insisted that Chan could work on all of his movies after that. Unfortunately, Lee died before he could keep his promise.

** ''Film/{{Supercop}}'': He jumped from the top of a building onto a rope ladder suspended beneath a helicopter. The ladder then crashed into a billboard, breaking his shoulder.

** He got into yet another car crash filming a car chase with Creator/EmilyBlunt for ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow''. Blunt, who was driving - accidentally crashed the car into a tree. Cruise suffered some bad bruises though luckily didn't receive more serious injuries, although Blunt joked about the time she "nearly killed Tom Cruise".

* ''Series/{{The Avengers|1960s}}''[='=] episode "Mandrake" featured Creator/HonorBlackman have a fight scene with wrestler Jackie Pallo. In one take, she 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.

* One sketch on ''Theatre/TheDangerousBrothers'' required Creator/AdrianEdmondson to be set on fire. Unfortunately, [[JustForPun in the heat of the moment]], he forgot the safety word and as he rolled around on the floor screaming to be put out, one crewmember commented on his professionalism - beause he didn't need the safety word!

* Creator/DavidBoreanaz injured his knee filming the final season of ''Series/{{Angel}}''. This required surgery, so some episodes were amended (most notably "Smile Time", where Angel is turned into a puppet and Boreanaz only has to do voiceovers).

* Creator/DavidBoreanaz injured his knee filming the final season of ''Series/{{Angel}}''. This required surgery, so some episodes were amended.

* Creator/HenryCavill tore his hamstring while filming ''Series/TheWitcher'' Season 2. He admits that an injury like this could have ended his acting career.

* Creator/NormanReedus was injured ''three times''' during filming ''Series/{{The Walking Dead|2010}}''. 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.

** Creator/DougJones suffered a serious shoulder injury while filming the first season of ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'',which required surgery and sidelined him from a cameo role in the ''[[Film/Hellboy2019 Hellboy]]'' reboot.

** Creator/JerryDoyle broke his arm for real during the filming of [[Recap/BabylonFiveS03E10SeveredDreams Severed Dreams]]". Unfortunately the scene showing him with a broken ankle was filmed BEFORE the accident and later episodes ignored the broken ankle and show Garibaldi with an arm cast, explaining that this was the injury sustained in the fight.

* Series/BabylonFive had a few incidents but these stand out:
** Creator/ClaudiaChristian (Ivanova) broke her ankle during "The Geometry of Shadows" but, thanks to a hasty rewrite (Susan getting trampled by the Drazi), was able to work through it. Though she might have wished she hadn't, since filming the 'injury' scene aggravated her real-life injury, generating such a blood-curdling scream that it was rumored she actually broke her ankle on-camera.
** Creator/JerryDoyle broke his arm for real during the filming of Recap/BabylonFiveS03E10SeveredDreams. Unfortunately the scene showing him with a broken ankle was filmed BEFORE the accident and later episodes ignored the broken ankle and show Garibaldi with an arm cast, explaining that this was the injury sustained in the fight.

* Series/BabylonFive had several incidents that spooked the actors:

** He once dared Creator/DolphLundgren on the set of ''Film/RockyIV'' to punch him at full force. Long story short, he wound up in the ''intesive care unit'' for 'several days''.

** While filming one of the movies, William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy both suffered permanent hearing damage and tinnitus from a special effects explosion that they were too close to.

** Marina Sirtis asked to perform her own stunt of being knocked backward in [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E15PowerPlay "Power Play"]], only for her to land wrong and badly bruise her tailbone. Worst of all, according to Sirtis, was that the shot ended up being from so far away "it could have been Worf in Troi's costume and you couldn't tell the difference!" Sirtis also suffered some mild burns during the ''Enterprise-D'' crash sequence in ''Film/StarTrekGenerations''
** Patricia Tallman, a stunt double for several of the female leads in the series, was injured while doubling for Nana Visitor when Tim Russ slugged her for real in [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E04InvasiveProcedures "Invasive Procedures"]]. Russ wanted to stop so she could be treated, but Tallman told him to finish the fight so they could get it on film.
** Alfre Woodard was burned by a pyrotechnic effect on the set of ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'' that left some mild scarring on her upper arms.
** Doug Jones suffered a serious shoulder injury while filming the first season of ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'',which required surgery and sidelined him from a cameo role in the ''[[Film/Hellboy2019 Hellboy]]'' reboot.

* ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'': Original Elphaba Creator/IdinaMenzel suffered an accident during her second-to-last performance on January 8, 2005, when the trapdoor for the melting scene partially descended without her, causing her to misstep and break her ribs. She did, however, make a surprise appearance at the curtain call for what would have been her final performance.

* Jillian Shea Spaeder broke her arm during production halfway through the first season of ''Series/WalkThePrank'', so her injury was worked into the episodes outside the prank scenes.

** In the Patagonia Special, Creator/JamesMay cracked three ribs while attempting to mount a horse.