Injured "Spider-Man" Talks about Terrifying Fall

NEW YORK - It was a horrific moment for a death-defying performer. "Spider-Man: Turn of the Dark" actor Christopher Tierney tumbled 30 feet before a stunned audience on Dec. 20, 2010. His safety harness was not correctly attached.

Tierney, 31, spoke exclusively with Dana Tyler from CBS Station WCBS.

Scroll down to watch video from her exclusive report.

"It was just, you know, a bit of human error," says Tierney. "I'm supposed to jump off the bridge but it catches me and I was tethered to my back but [the wire] just didn't get tethered to the stage. And so when I went out - and as I do with everything - I just go for it. There was no pulling myself back."

He says, "I was falling and then I saw, once I hit the darkness of the stage, I had to just turn [my neck] real quick so I wasn't going to fall on my head and I crashed on my back. The last thing I remember was just going, 'Oh, god.' And then I kind of passed out."

Read Dana Tyler's report at CBS station WCBS.

Tierney remembers coming to and wanting to get up. Stage crew members kept him still. Something he's grateful for.

"Broke four ribs, broke three vertebrae. Fractured my scapula. Fractured my elbow. Fractured the back of my head," he tells Tyler.

When asked if he blames anybody, Tierney says, "The people involved, we've already been…they came and visited, and we've seen completely, like, water under the bridge and forgiven and forgotten."

He says he wasn't scared and that the people operating the equipment know safety. " I trust them implicitly. They don't mess around," he says. He's eager to fly again.

Dana Tyler: "I hear what you're saying, but you suffered really serious injuries. But you're a forgiving person. You feel, you weren't pushed to hard?"

"No!" says Tierney. "I'm glad to be working on the show. Not glad, overjoyed to be working on the show."

He says he's hasn't lost faith in the show. "Not a single actor in the show has said, 'Somebody's going to die. You need to stop.'"

On Sunday the president of the actor's union released a statement, saying, "That Chris is not the first actor, nor the second, but rather the fourth to be injured on 'Spider-Man' is frustrating and maddening and, to some, infuriating."

Tierney says, "I'm meant to be 'Spider-Man.'" He's been a fan of Spider-Man since he was 4.

"My friends in the cast, my mother, my father, my brother, so unbelievable. Everybody. All the visitors, all their energy, their love, and complete strangers. The immediate outpouring of love that happened is so unbelievable."

He has rods and screws in his back. He has pain in his rib with each step he takes. Still, he says, "Everyday is better. It makes me believe I'm going to be back in the show at no time."

Realistically, he says he knows it will takes months for him injuries to heal properly. Then he wants to get back to the showe.

"I'll come out and I'll swing around and then I land on the balcony," he says. "I'll look around and there will be five or six kids right there and it's a mixture of abject fear and adoration. And they're like, 'Oh my god! He just landed right here but it's Spider-Man.' And they scream and I can't wait to make them scream."