Friday, February 11, 2011
Stunt Woman Sustains Severe Head Trauma on 'Justified' Set
Backstage.com: "A stunt woman was taken to a hospital with severe head trauma after being hit by a vehicle on the set of 'Justified' last week, TMZ.com reported Thursday.
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This is a sad accident that has taken place on the set of 'Justified'. As awful as it is you have to wonder what was going on. Stunt people are obviously put in dangerous situations all the time, that is what they do, and are trained to execute it safely. However, in this situation it begs the question of whether or not it was a stunt gone bad, or just something that should not have happened at all. Stunt people are some of the most vital gears in our machine, they are in almost any action movie and to be honest get very little credit. I hope that the stunt woman recovers and can return to what she loves to do. A really odd thing about this article is that the last sentence is that NCIS had to suspend production because a security guard was killed! And thats all it says, was he an actor, a real guard? What happened!?
Becoming a stunt person has serious risks. Stunt people are trained in how to execute a stunt without getting hurt. I wonder how much training does towards rolling out of a stunt gone wrong. And how much time the stunt person spends looking at the set and apparatus before starting shooting.
Its interesting that this is the second major incident on a set of a tv show recently. Like the article said, there was an accident when a van ran over and killed a security guard that worked for NCIS. I really hope these incidents are just a coincidence and wont happen again. But they do say something about the safety on the sets of tv shows for those other than the ones trained to handle stunts. Yes, the stunt people are trained, but what about the other people who handle anything to do with the stunts or the people who are on set when something goes wrong? Will they know what to do when things go wrong?
In response to what Devrie said about the recent rash of stunt and production injuries and incidents, I have to say that it is a good thing that we are still hearing about it because as soon as things this serious fail to make the news then we know they have started to become commonplace, and that can't happen.
That being said, stunt people know what they're in for when they are doing stunts. I actually was listening to an interview just this weekend with an old-timer stunt man who started off doing westerns (jumping from horse to horse, being dragged by a horse, jumping from the top of a cliff onto the top of a stagecoach, etc) and moved on to be the "car" stunt guy for films---actually "inventing" how cars are blown up and flipped for modern movies. This guy was SO aware of how dangerous everything was, and knew that one false step/glance/breeze could cost him his life, or even the life of the animal he was working with or another member of the stunt team or production team.
Things will go wrong--that's just life. And for the other people working with the stunt folks, they should be aware of the scale of the stunt and what to do if something goes wrong. In fact, if they don't know they SHOULD ask. Lives could be at risk.
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