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LONDON, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- A Disney owned Star Wars production company has been fine $2 million for injuring Harrison Ford during filming of The Force Awakens. A British court handed out the fine Wednesday according to Variety after Foodles Production Ltd. had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of breaking health and safety rules.
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Ford famously broke his leg during production on The Force Awakens when he was struck by a hydraulic door onboard the Millennium Falcon.
The injury led to production on the film to be delayed by two weeks, a fact that director J.J. Abrams has said allowed him to make improvements to the script.
"The greatest failing of all on behalf of the company is a lack of communication," Judge Francis Sheridan said of the case. "If only they had included Mr. Ford in all the discussions, he might have at least been alert to the dangers that he had to avoid."
Ford had made light of the situation previously joking, "In the original film, the door would have been closed with a pulley. Now we had lots of money and technology and so they built a [expletive] great hydraulic door which closed at light speed."
