Snow removal accident

[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.

 

[deezler]

Yeah it sounds like he enjoys using his personal snowcat to pack down the sledding hill for his kids, and maybe also plow the driveway. Did it roll over and he fell out? Or did it have a transmission or parking brake failure, allowing it to roll over him? Curious.

And then to top it off, Ken Block's snowmobile flipped over onto him yesterday and killed him. Learned about both of these last night while watching the Monday Night Football interruption as Damar Hamlin's heart stopped on the field and needed AED and CPR. Chilling stuff.

 

[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.