The 52-year-old actor was rescued from a traumatic injury on Sunday morning and flown to a hospital, local sheriff’s departments said in a statement.
We can confirm that Jeremy is in critical but stable condition following a weather-related accident while plowing snow, one of his agents was quoted as saying by media on Sunday.
His family is with him and he is being very well taken care of, he added.
The actor was driving a snow groomer to clear the access road to his home in the mountains between California and Nevada when the machine rolled over one of his legs, according to eyewitness testimony, according to specialist publication TMZ.
Previous postings on his social networks showed him handling this imposing device, comparable to those used by ski resorts to prepare slopes.
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He lost a lot of blood and a neighboring doctor gave him a tourniquet before help arrived, according to TMZ.
The region has been hit by heavy snowfalls in recent weeks.
Jeremy Renner started out as an actor in independent cinema before breaking into several blockbusters in Hollywood.
He became known to the general public in 2010 for playing an American soldier in The Minesweeper (The Hurt Locker), a challenging role for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. He was also nominated for an Oscar for Ben Affleck’s thriller The Town.
Jeremy Renner took his fame to a new level when he played Clint Barton, aka Hawkeye, in Marvel Studio’s superhero film Avengers – one of the biggest hits in cinema history.