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Star Wars firm fined £1.6m over Harrison Ford injury http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-37637453
"A production company behind the latest Star Wars movie has been fined £1.6m ($2m) after Harrison Ford broke his leg on set. The actor was injured in June 2014 at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire as he reprised his role as Han Solo. He was struck by a metal door on the set of the Millennium Falcon spaceship."
Brute Force: Humans Can Sure Take a Punch http://www.livescience.com/6040-brute-force-humans-punch.html
"So how much does it take to crack a bone? And how much mayhem can a person deal out? In an era when "extreme fighting" has become a popular phenomenon, scientists are testing the extremes that athletes at the peak of their game can reach in order to help the rest of us."
Bone Resilience Depends on Angle of Attack https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bone-resilience-depends-o/
"Sometimes all it takes to break a bone is a step in the wrong direction or, more specifically, a force applied in the same direction as the line-up of the nano-size collagen fibers that give bone its strength. New research shows that bones react to forces from certain directions like reinforced plastics and from others like brittle ceramics."
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