OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #888552
CARROLL COUNTY OFFICE OF LAND MNGT & MAINTENANCE
HAMSPTEAD, MD·
Event description
Employee injured when riding mower overturns in pond
Investigation abstract
On September 14, 1988, Employee #1, a county employee, was using a Gravely 17 HP rs and weedeaters are provided for such use. Employees receive hands-on training and attend weekly staff meetings concerning the safe use and operation of this equipment. riding mower to cut grass at the North Carroll Community Pond, a five-acre coun ty park. He was mowing the surface near the edge of the pond when the rear wheel of the mower apparently became caught in a depression in the ground. The tracto r overturned, landing in the pond and pinning the employee's right leg between t he mower and pond mud. He pulled himself free and was taken to the local hospita l, where he was X-rayed and held overnight for treatment of shock and water in h is lungs. He sustained no bone damage or bruising as a result of the accident. E mployees normally do not use riding mowers to cut the slopes of ponds; push mowe
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 37 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 28
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 486
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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