Jeremy Renner is letting the public in on some highly intimate details of his near-fatal snowplow accident .

The Marvel star was accidentally crushed by his own plow on Jan. 1, 2023, as he was moving to save his nephew from being run over. He broke 38 bones in the process, but survived to tell the story Wednesday on The Tonight Show where he shared his silver linings.

Theres wonderful lessons in that, Renner told Jimmy Fallon . I can go on and on about what happened, and the 45 minutes being on the ice, but... theres so many great gifts, being tested to your limits. Your physical limits, your spiritual limits, right? Emotional limits.

Its like, I wont have a bad day for the rest of my life, he continued. Its impossible.

Renner was using a plow to clear his Lake Tahoe property of 12 feet of snow, he said, when the machine got out of [his] hands and threatened to crush his nephew. When he tried to commandeer the plow, Renner got caught up in the tracks and was injured so severely, he said, that his eyeball was out.

I had to exhale with all my might so I can suck air back in, he told Fallon. Didnt know I had a popped lung and all this other stuff going on, but I just had to breathe. If I didnt breathe, then I wouldve been gone. Forget the eyeball and all the titanium and the broken bones.

Airlifted to a local hospital, Renner underwent multiple surgeries and months of recovery.