You hear about it when a famous person dies during the filming, like Brandon Lee, but I wonder how often people are killed on the set but one never heard about it.
I don’t believe that anyone is ever killed while making a Hollywood movie and the news does not go out immediately. The death of every stunt man on a set has been a major event for decades.
Yes, but that’s including only deaths caused by the production. Statistically, wouldn’t you expect a certain number of people in the industry to die each year while working on a project?
Not enough judging from the product.
It’s shocking, I know, but EVERYONE dies while Hollywood films are being made. It’s a 24/7 industry. 
To clarify, I was more interested in people who died as a result of an accident on the set, not those who happened to pass while working on a film project. In other words, Brandon Lee, but not Natalie Wood.
Vic Morrow died during filming of Twilight Zone-The Movie.
Brandon Lee makes two.
Did someone die during the filming of Ben Hur?
There was John Eric Hexum (sp?) who was kelled in an off-camer gun incident
There were one or two child actors killed alongside Vic Morrow.
Pilot Paul Mantz.
I can’t speak to its reliability, but this site claims 40 movie deaths in a 10 year period, which is MUCH more than I would have thought.
On perusal of that list, I am surprised that anyone ever survives a helicopter stunt.
Yes. That’s weird. Half of them seem to have died in helicopter crashes…
That’s because helicoptors are inherently more risky than other vehicles.
Even when flown under normal conditions, helicoptors are more prone to instability, and have some very significant, rapidly moving parts that are unshielded. Note that on that list of filming fatalities, several of the chopper accidents didn’t involve stunts, they involved helicoptors being used as transportiong from point A to point B.
Combine helicoptors with stunt flying, or stunts of any sort, and the risk goes up and up.
To get a rough idea of what happens when a human body runs afoul of a rotor, turn on a blender and drop in a carrot. This is not a machine you want to get careless around.
Mind you, I enjoy riding in helicoptors myself - and only a tourist would laugh at the way I duck down to get to the door. You want to keep as far away from the moving parts as possible at all times.
I wonder if they use the new, inexperienced stunt men for the helicopter stunts. Then, after you have proven yourself you get to be Kevin Costner’s body double for the love scene.
Trinidad Silva died in a car accident during the filming of UHF. Not on set, but he hadn’t finished filming all his scenes yet.
Not in the remake (the Charlton Heston version), but at least one did in the original (the silent version).
The sea battle between the Romans and the pirates was much more elaborate in the original. Instead of models and such, real ships were used out in the actual ocean. Several extras are thought to have died during the filming of these scenes. There isn’t any proof, but cast members did attest to them drowning.
The chariot race in the original also proved fatal for one of the drivers. In a curve, the wheel broke off and he was flung into a pile of wood, killing him.
I don’t believe anyone was seriously injured in the remake.