The most serious bells related accident I can find is a blast in a French foundry injuring 46 in 2009 [0]. Another hazard is that, with the exception of some g

The most serious bells related accident I can find is a blast in a French foundry injuring 46 in 2009 [0]. Another hazard is that, with the exception of some ground-floor rings, most bells are rung from a ringing chamber in the tower accessed by a spiral staircase or ladder. This makes it difficult to remove a patient after a medical emergency (or an accident), and the easiest solution may be for a stretcher to be lowered through the trapdoor in the ringing chamber used to install the bells (there have been a couple of articles about drills [1, 2], and I know of one instance when this was done locally). There have been a couple of cases where people have been knocked unconscious: Tony Merrry at Charlbury in 2008 [3], and Helen Springthorpe at Bathampton in 2012 [4]; commenting in 2012, a CCBR spokesperson said that "I know of only one fatality in the past 50 years" [5]. [0]: https://www.ringingworld.co.uk/news-articles/this-week/231-rw-5128.html https://www.ringingworld.co.uk/news-articles/this-week/231-r... [1]: https://www.ringingworld.co.uk/news-articles/this-week/750-rw-5258.html https://www.ringingworld.co.uk/news-articles/this-week/750-r... [2]: https://www.ringingworld.co.uk/news-articles/this-week/520-rw-5197.html https://www.ringingworld.co.uk/news-articles/this-week/520-r... [3]: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/bell-ringer-comes-a-cropper-in-church-tower-accident-829313.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/bell-ringe... [4]: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breakingnews/offbeat/bellringer-rescued-after-accident-28919594.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breakingnews/offbeat/bellr... [5]: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/10/helen-springthorpe-bell-ringing_n_2103954.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/10/helen-springthorpe-...