Stunt performer Jonathan Goodwin, a contestant on “America’s Got Talent: Extreme“, is reportedly hospitalised after suffering severe injuries while doing a daring stunt. The accident took place at the Atlanta Motor Speedway, where the forthcoming NBC show is being filmed.

Goodwin was reportedly suspended about 70 feet in the air in a straitjacket. He was hanging by his feet from a wire and two cars were suspended on either side of him. Goodwin was supposed to free himself and then fall on an air mattress, and avoid getting crushed by the cars that were swinging back and forth in the air.

Things went wrong when the car crashed into one other, with the stuntman in between them. Soon, the vehicles erupted ‘in a gigantic fireball’, causing Goodwin to fall to the ground. He hit his head to the ground. He was airlifted to a local hospital and underwent an emergency surgery. His condition was not known. 

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“During a rehearsal last evening for America’s Got Talent: Extreme, an accident occurred in which escape artist Jonathan Goodwin was injured while performing his act,” a spokesperson for the show told PEOPLE. 

“He was responsive and was immediately taken to the hospital where he is continuing to receive medical care. Our thoughts and prayers go out to him and his family as we await further updates on his condition,” the statement continues.

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Goodwin, who calls himself “The Daredevil,” is known to perform stunts that are unthinkable. His website bio describes him as a “professional danger man” who has “put himself in the most extreme situations and dodged death each time.”  

NBC announced the forthcoming show two weeks back, describing it as “the most outrageous, unique and jaw-dropping acts of enormous scale and magnitude that simply cannot be confined to a theater stage.”