Snow removal accident

[scootr]

Jeremy Renner is "hospitalized in critical but stable condition with injuries suffered after experiencing a weather related accident while plowing snow,"

Anybody know what happened?
Prayers for a full & speedy recovery

 

[Rustyiron]

I heard that on the radio today, just don't know who he is or why it makes the news.

 

[workinonit]

Renner is an actor that I really like. He starred in the Bourne Legacy and is in Mayor of Kingstown which I just watched and am waiting on the next season. I sure hope he is okay. If he is blowing or plwing snow on a tractor that moves him a notch higher on my favorite list. I like him because you never hear any of the rhetoric out of him that you hear from other actors.

 

[scootr]

The area he was doing snow removal in received about 4 ft of new snow. We imagine he may have driven off the road or got involved in a mechanical accident. Just curious as to what happened.

 

[Threepoint]

Heard on CBS and ABC News this evening that Renner's snowcat plow reportedly ran over his leg while he was off it clearing snow.

 

[Yander]

Renner was in "The Hurt Locker", Hawkey in Marvel movies, starred in " Wind River" (Great Movie) and others. He is a great actor IMO.

Jeremy Renner is now out of surgery after suffering blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries in a weather-related accident. He remains in the intensive care unit in “critical but stable condition,” according to his representation.

 

[cqaigy2]

Ouch! Hope it heals up good.

 

[scootr]

Oh boy ! I read only blunt force chest injury and broken bones requiring a life flight.

 

[leonz]

It did not sound as if he was buckled in when it rolled over and he was thrown from the cab.

 

[sea2summit]

There's a picture of him in what appears to be an ambulance sitting up with some cuts to his face as well. Not sure if it's actually from this incident.

Honestly, I have more respect for him as a human to see he's out there getting stuff done. Prayers out for recovery.

 

[shooterdon]

I saw the "weather related" part and thought...what the heck does that mean?

Doing something careless or foolish operating a plow and we blame the weather? It is not like he hit black ice at night and rolled off the road.

 

[MossRoad]

More details here:

New Video of Jeremy Renner Airlifted After Snowplow Accident

A new video, obtained by TMZ, shows Jeremy Renner getting rushed to the hospital via helicopter soon after getting into a serious snowplowing accident.

www.tmz.com

Mentions of snow cat, run over, blunt force trauma to the chest, leg, Dr. neighbor applying a tourniquet, large loss of blood.

Good luck to him. Sounds like serious injuries.

 

[coldsteelva]

I think he probably just hopped out for a second and didn't shut down the machine and set the brake. If it was sitting on an incline, the tracks may have free-wheeled over him.

 

[scootr]

It did not sound as if he was buckled in when it rolled over and he was thrown from the cab.

It rolled? Seems it would be hard to roll a cat. No?

 

[MossRoad]

Mayor of his town said he was helping a stuck motorist.

 

[scootr]

One early report said he had jumped off to kick some snow off that was stuck on the machine

 

[scootr]

Just read that he was run over by the Pistenbully snow plow

 

[LD48750]

Version I heard was he got off to help someone & the snowcat started to roll.
He got run over trying to get back in to stop it.

 

[Threepoint]

Version I heard was he got off to help someone & the snowcat started to roll.
He got run over trying to get back in to stop it.

Yes, heard the same tonight on NBC Nightly News, and that it was a family member stuck in the snow that he was helping when the snowcat started to roll. I think, but am not sure, that the pic I posted in post #5 is of his actual machine with him in it. Looks like you have to step on the tread to get in and out.