Acting is dangerous work. My sister-in-law ended up in the hospital filming a scene running through the woods in a low budget horror movie. There was Ellen Burstyn who's had serious back problems for years after The Exorcist. There was a very brief shot less than a second long of her landing on the floor when Linda Blair knocks her down. That's what wrecked her life. Dick York was in pain from a back injury for years from using a hand car in a western.
Now I came across this on YouTube, an interview with Noah Hathaway who starred in Neverending Story when he was 12. I knew about this---that before filming began, they were teaching him horseback riding, deciding what horse he should ride in the movie, when the horse he was riding fell and landed on top of him. He had a broken back and spent a month and a half in the hospital. He started filming as soon as he was released.
But now the poor devil has had several back surgeries and still needs more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ5eCJxc2zI
I don't know how workman's comp would work in this case since it was thirty years ago and in Germany.
If you're filming a no-budget movie, by the way, you can get workman's comp on actors even if they're working for no pay. Probably not a bad idea.
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