Incident date: 2024-11-15
NAICS industry code: 561730

An employee approached another employee who was operating a lawn mower, and her foot got caught under the mower and pulled in before the mower was turned off, resulting in injury to the right foot and leg that included an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Mowing and brush removal machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Lower extremities  unspecified
severity: high