Firm fined €1.8m over Ford’s ‘Star Wars’ set injury

A film production company has been fined £1.6m (€1.8m) for health and safety breaches after Harrison Ford was crushed by a hydraulic door on the set of the Millennium Falcon spaceship while filming a ‘Star Wars’ movie.

Foodles Production (UK) Ltd was handed the penalty at Aylesbury Crown Court yesterday after the Disney-owned company admitted two breaches of health and safety law following the incident, in which Ford was knocked to the ground and pinned down by the steel door.

The actor was reprising his role as Han Solo in Star Wars: The Force Awakens at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire in June 2014 when he was hit by the door, which had been designed to mimic the action of a door on the original set.