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A FILM PRODUCTION company in the UK is to face legal charges after Hollywood star Harrison Ford broke his leg on a set it was supervising.
Ford had his left leg broken, together with other injuries inflicted, by a heavy hydraulic metal door on the set of the Millennium Falcon, his character Han Solo’s starship, during production of the latest Star Wars movie on 12 June 2014.
The actor was subsequently airlifted to hospital.
Foodles Production (UK) Ltd is the company that was responsible for producing the movie at the world famous Pinewood Studios near London. Its parent company is Disney, which acquired the rights to Star Wars from George Lucas in 2012.
Following an investigation in the wake of the incident, the British Health and Safety Executive has decided to bring charges against the company in light of the “serious injuries” suffered by Ford.
“The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has today informed Foodles Production (UK) Ltd that it will be prosecuted over an incident in which actor Harrison Ford was seriously injured during the filming of Star Wars: The Forces Awakens,” a spokesman for the HSE said in a statement.
London based Foodles will now appear at High Wycombe Magistrates Court on 12 May to face four charges.
“Foodles Production (UK) Ltd will be prosecuted over four alleged breaches of health and safety law,” the spokesman said.
By law, employers must take reasonable steps to protect workers – this is as true on a film set as a factory floor. We have investigated thoroughly and believe that we have sufficient evidence to bring the case to court.
Ford was reprising his role as Solo, one of the 1980s most iconic Hollywood creations, when the accident occurred.
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Cos that decisions not gonna cause any problems.
“A nonagenarian lawyer representing a Hindu deity “ ..well presumably the lawyer for the other side is also representing a fictitious deity?
This is a very dangerous development.
@Gary Sheahan: why?
When the gods start warring with each other it seems to go on forever .I wonder did ever hear about a Good Friday kind of thing and follow their poor mortals and come up with some sort of arrangement
Hmm, what could possibly go wrong?
India going out of their way to piss off the muslims
@Mr.Misery: yep the Danes and French caused mayhem with a couple of cartoons. What are the Indians thinking??
@Greg Daniel: PM Modi is a Hindu ethno-nationalist, he’s been whipping up anti-Muslim sentiment for ages in India as a means to get into and hold onto power-he is a dangerous individual who will end up formenting mass murder if he’s not careful
@Mr.Misery: What could India possibly have against the religion that killed as many as 80 million of their people?
@DJ François: Yep, definitely. Kashmir was only the start of it. Now this. Lots more to come
@Fifty Shades of Sé: 80 million Indians killed by Muslims? Where did you get that from?
@Fifty Shades of Sé: religion killed 80 million? Hope they caught it.
@DJ François: hate mongering at it’s worst
@Niall Carry: I’m a Hindu. I know what we have suffered at the hands of invaders since time immemorial
But that is what Islam does, look at all the Christian sites in Israel as they all had an Islamic site built on most of them. And Christians did the same to pagan sites and so on and so on…
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