Incident date: 2024-10-02
NAICS industry code: 713910

Two employees were driving groundskeeping mowers to cut the grass on a golf course. As the two mowers passed each other, one mower struck and threw a golf ball into the right leg of the employee operating the second mower. The injured employee was hospitalized with two fractures in their lower right leg.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Vehicle struck by falling or flying object(s), nonroadway
code_source: title: Lawn mower  riding
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate