A crew member from Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ movie in New Mexico could lose their arm after being bit by a spider while shutting down the film set, a report said.
A brown recluse spider bit Jason Miller, a lamp operator and pipe rigger, as he and other workers tore down equipment for the film, reports said. It's unclear when the crew member was bit. Producers said the movie would no longer continue production after the on-set, fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins last month.
This brown recluse is perfectly displaying one its most used defense mechanisms.
— 🟣 MG Lorraine (@marcella_gail) November 7, 2021
"I am dead. Deead. Even if you poke me, nope, I dead. So dead."
Seconds after this photo was taken, this perfectly healthy spider popped up and ran off in a mad sprint. #spider pic.twitter.com/1FFCSFGqG1
Brown recluse spider bites are rare, but their venom is dangerously poisonous and can sometimes cause serious wounds, according to entomologists at the University of Kentucky. It lives in the Midwest and south-central U.S. Similar species live in southern California.
A fundraiser organized for Miller online reportedly said most of the cells and tissue in his arm have died, and sepsis is now threatening his limb.
“He has been hospitalized and endured multiple surgeries each day as doctors do their best to stop the infection and try to save his arm from amputation,” the page read, according to Sky News. “Under worse circumstances, he loses his arm.”
“It will be a very long road to recovery for Jason if the medical team is able to save his arm,” the statement continued.
