Accident Report Detail
Accident: 170626675 - Employee Suffers Amputation Using Lawn Mower
Accident: 170626675 -- Report ID: 0950621 -- Event Date: 01/09/2001 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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125723684 | 04/17/2001 | 0782 | English Garden Care,Inc | ||||
At approximately 10:26 a.m. on January 9, 2001, Employee #1 stuck his hand under the blade enclosure of a rotary lawn mower while attempting to adjust the height of the wheels. The dead-man controls on the mower had been broken, and the engine had not been shut off. Employee #1 was hospitalized and his three fingers were reattached in subsequent operations. | |||||||
Keywords:
amputated, deadman control, finger, lawn mower, blade, inattention
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Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | |
1 | 125723684 | Hospitalized injury | Amputation | Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm |