Renner’s snowcat was reportedly made by Pistenbully. Don’t know which of their models, or if it’s even anything they currently offer. You can find manuals for these machines online (here’s one PDF), and when it comes to parking them, one of the required steps is setting the parking brake. A mechanical failure is certainly possible, but at this point I suspect he may have simply forgotten to set the brake before hopping out of the cab.
The New York Times had an article that the snow-cat started to roll after he used it to tow a family member’s car. And it mentioned that it’s a seven-ton vehicle, so quite substantial.
I have the feeling that if/when Jeremy sees this he’ll love it.
This minds me of the death of Anton Yelchin - an unwise snap decision in an others mundane course of events with utterly and tragically catastrophic results. Hopefully this turns out better.
So far it absolutely has turned out better; from what I remember, Anton Yelchin was alone and wasn’t found until it was too late.
Jeremy posted a video on Twitter today.
Also sometimes you just can’t get good help to do things like plow snow. In my case it’s very difficult to plow my driveway from the bottom up. Ya have to start at the top. Where I keep my plow truck.
When I had my hip replaced, I hired a guy to plow for me while I recovered. I pulled his stuck ass out 4 times.
He did not ask to renew the contract the next year. 
Mr. Renner had his 52nd birthday in the ICU and posted another picture and thanked the staff taking care of him:
He still looks pretty wrecked and he’s still in the ICU so I’m a bit concerned, but I hope he continues to improve and the rest of his recovery is uneventful.
I’ve been in the ICU a couple of times. I wasn’t in danger of dying. They are just set up for more intense monitoring.
Similarly, my youngest daughter had a high temperature after she was born (which we realized afterward was entirely due to the hospital room thermostat being too high) and she was in the NICU the whole first week of her life. She wasn’t even actually sick, let alone in danger of death. But again, they wanted to monitor her carefully and that was the place best set up for it.
On the other hand Mr. Renner did have injuries described as “life-threatening” and two emergency surgeries. There’s always the possibility of complications, which I sincerely hope he does not suffer. Hence, my wish that his recovery be uneventful going forward.
That’s why he’s still being monitored.
From what I’ve read, he is improving and hasn’t had setbacks but there’s always a chance it’ll happen.
I can’t imagine all the internal injuries that could happen after being run over and crushed.
I’m glad Jeremy is being closely monitored and that he’s doing much better.
Hopefully he’ll be back plowing snow next winter. He’ll be even more cautious about operating heavy equipment. Accidents can happen to anyone and sometimes lifes lessons are quite harsh.
There’s idle, uninformed speculation that he may not walk again, or have to have a leg amputated.
Gosh, it took that long for that speculation to hit the internet?
Sure, it’s a possibility. The exact nature of his injuries have not been revealed, which is fine because the public doesn’t have a right to know the details. What gets released is up to Mr. Renner.
Hey, I could have gone on about the worst possible scenarios but I didn’t. Possible outcomes cover a wide range.
Another doctor from Florida reflected on the situation by stating that the actor may need implanted rods for recovery
A doctor from Florida? you mean entirely unconnected to the case at all? Who the F is this doctor and what’s his expertise in crush injuries?
Implanted rods? Sure, that’s an old technology these days. My late spouse had that in his right leg. Sure he walked with a limp - he also led a marching band for many years. His operation was 40 years ago when the techniques were newer and less refined, a modern outcome would likely be even better. I have a co-worker who was run over by an SUV years ago, her leg crushed - again, a slight limp and stiffness but she works full time on her feet for an 8 hour shift 5 days a week and gets around just fine.
I expect Mr. Renner to have scars from this accident, but having known people who survived severe leg injuries I can’t get on board with the doom and gloom and hand-wringing in that article.
And if he loses a leg? Sure, maybe - but his own Hawkeye series had Alaqua Cox play a major character and she uses a prosthetic leg. And she’s getting her own series, Echo. I wouldn’t wish amputation on anyone but with modern prosthetics (and Renner can afford to buy high quality ones) losing a leg isn’t quite the crippling accident it was 50 years ago, even if an artificial leg still has drawbacks over your uninjured original.
So… yeah, he’s going to have scars and possibly have some mobility issues, but that doesn’t have to get in the way of having a good life or even bar him from acting (although yes, it may limit roles he can take).
What if - >gasp!< - he winds up in a wheelchair? He’s still going to be the same person who, apparently, can be quite generous and kind to others. He has the means to adapt his home in any way required. He can still do a lot of things in this world whether he can walk or not. People don’t stop being who they are because they’re injured. Heck, he could probably get his snowplow fitted with hand controls and continue plowing his driveway if that’s what he wants.
And, holy crap - this focus on whether or not he’ll be able to walk. Honestly, there are a lots of other sorts of permanent damage one can suffer that are arguably worse than mobility issues.
Bottom line - what a trashy pile of speculation that article is. He’ll recover at the rate he recovers. I hope it’s a complete recovery but if he’s left with some level of permanent impairment it’s not the end of the world, or even necessarily the end of his career in Hollywood. But if he decides to do something else that’s entirely OK, too - it’s not like he hasn’t tried his hand at other things besides acting.
I wish him an uneventful recovery and a good life.
It’s possible for a limb to heal in a way that it’s healthy for the long haul at a cellular level, but is unable to bear a useful mechanical load, rendering it useless (or even detrimental) for daily life. This is the kind of situation where a clean surgical amputation can facilitate the use of a prosthetic limb that gets the patient’s life much closer to what they had before the accident.
My grandfather lost two-and-a-half fingers in a snowblower, and a toe to a riding lawn mower. I don’t know which happened first.
On the same day?!
It was a really, really, bad day.