The sad thing is it not only lands on him, but pushes him several feet!!! I would have at least liked him to be in a healing tank like Luke in ESB or something.
Come to think of it, people in general just seem to suffer more 'real' damage in the OT vs the PT- in the PT you'd think you were watching Futurama (vastly superior IMHO ) where limbs and heads get cut off and stuck back on with little consequence.