Harrison Ford was almost killed on the Star Wars set

Actor Harrison Ford had a brush with death in an accident on the set of Star Wars: The Force Awakens during filming in 2014, although he luckily managed to escape with just a broken leg, The Independent reports. Ford was walking through the door of the Millennium Falcon spaceship when he allegedly was knocked to the ground and crushed by a hydraulic door, said Andrew Marshall, the prosecutor arguing the case against the production company.

"It could have killed somebody," Marshall said. "The fact that it didn't was because the emergency stop was activated." The door still reportedly crushed Ford's pelvic area with power comparable to the weight of a small car, breaking his leg, and he had to be airlifted to a hospital in Oxford.

Ford, then 71, who plays the character Han Solo, said in the original films the door would have been closed simply using a pulley or a stage hand. "But now we had lots of money and technology and so they built a f---ing great hydraulic door which closed at light speed," he said.

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The Disney-owned production company, Foodles Production (UK) Ltd, admitted to health and safety breaches surrounding the incident.