Actor Jeremy Renner says he broke more than 30 bones in snowplow accident - NBC News

Actor Jeremy Renner broke much than 30 bones successful his assemblage erstwhile helium was tally implicit by a snowplow earlier this month, helium said successful an Instagram station Saturday.

“Much emotion and appreciation to you all,” said Renner, 52, who plays superhero Hawkeye successful Marvel’s “Avengers” and besides starred successful Paramount+ transgression thriller bid “Mayor of Kingstown”

“These 30 positive breached bones volition mend, turn stronger, conscionable similar the emotion and enslaved with household and friends deepens.”

Renner was plowing snowfall for a neighbour adjacent his location successful Reno, Nevada, erstwhile helium was tally implicit by a PistenBully snowplow, which weighs astatine slightest 7 tons, Washoe County Sheriff Darin Balaam told a quality league soon aft the mishap connected New Year's Day.

The prima had gone to talk to a household subordinate erstwhile the snowplow started to rotation toward him, Balaam said, adding that Renner was tally implicit erstwhile helium attempted to get into the driver's spot to halt it.

Neighbors helped arsenic helium waited 40 minutes for archetypal responders to get connected the country owed to upwind conditions, Balaam said.

Renner suffered blunt thorax trauma and orthopedic injuries, his representative, Sam Mast, said astatine the time, adding that Renner was successful critical but unchangeable condition erstwhile helium was treated successful the ICU. 

After much than 2 weeks successful hospital, Renner said helium was backmost astatine location connected Wednesday successful a effect to a tweet from the “Mayor of Kingstown” authoritative relationship promoting play 2.

“Outside my encephalon fog successful recovery, I was precise excited to ticker occurrence 201 with my household astatine home,” helium said.

The actor, who is simply a two-time Oscar nominee, had antecedently posted images and video on Instagram of him lasting adjacent to snowplows and rolling done icy terrain successful a Jeep.