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Other notable on-set accidents

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‘TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE’

A 1982 helicopter crash that killed actor Vic Morrow and two child actors on the set of “Twilight Zone” shook the film industry and led to new safety standards for the use of choppers during filming. Director John Landis and four others were acquitted of involuntar­y manslaught­er charges in a rare case of prosecutor­s targeting a film production for on-set deaths.

‘THE CROW’

Actor Brandon Lee died in March 1993 after he was shot in the abdomen while filming a scene for “The Crow.” A makeshift bullet was mistakenly left in a gun from a previous scene and struck Lee during a scene that called for using blank rounds. After the fatal “Rust” shooting Thursday, an account run by Lee’s sister Shannon tweeted: “No one should ever be killed by a gun on a film set. Period.”

‘MIDNIGHT RIDER’

Camera operator Sarah Jones was run over by a train in February 2014 during the filming of a Gregg Allman biopic in rural Georgia. The death of Jones, 27, put a heightened industry focus on film set safety.

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