Netflix Crew Member Who Almost Died in 33-Foot Fall Pushes for Safer Sets: ‘We Want Things to Be Fixed’
variety.comGene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Michael Oronoz doesn’t remember what happened on Sept. 14, 2021. But his life has been divided into everything that came before that date and everything after.
He was working as a grip on “Me Time,” a Netflix film starring Mark Wahlberg and Kevin Hart. That morning, he was sent up to the catwalks at Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood to fix a motorized hoist that had gotten jammed.
While he reached up to work on it, he leaned for balance on a gate. Unexpectedly, the gate swung open, and he fell 33 feet onto the floor below.
He broke both femurs, his wrists, his jaw and the orbital bone in his face. He suffered a collapsed lung and a brain bleed. He nearly died. “His heart did stop,” says his wife, Selina Oronoz. “They did have to revive him.
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