Every year, workers on both sides of the camera are maimed, burned, break bones and even die
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Every year, workers on both sides of the camera are maimed, burned, break bones and even die striving to deliver entertainment that packs multiplexes and commands top TV ratings. Injuries come not just from obvious risks such as stunts and explosives, but from falls off ladders, toppled equipment and machines without safety guards.
Yet in an industry where virtually everything is tallied and every success is touted, set accidents remain largely hidden and the consequences usually amount to mere thousands of dollars in fines paid out of multimillion-dollar budgets.
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Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook - Since 1990, at least 43 people have died on film and TV sets in the U.S.
- More than 150 have been left with life-altering injuries
- Internationally, at least 37 people have died since 2000, including a worker killed on the Budapest set of the ‘Blade Runner’ sequel in August
- Film studios are fined paltry amounts after such accidents
- These fines often are fiercely contested by studios and production companies, and prosecutions are rarely pursued
- Most workers are legally barred from suing, and those that do encounter the reluctance of witnesses to come forward
- Report found that in nearly half the instances where OSHA fined studios or production companies after a serious accident, the penalty was reduced
- OSHA assessed roughly $404,000 in fines for 15 fatal accidents, with those penalties eventually knocked down to $236,000
- The review also found cases in which serious accidents during productions outside California were not properly catalogued
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