Man run over by lawn mower at golf course

Mace Canute · Dec 29, 2011

Came across this news article. Sounds like he wouldn't have been hurt if he had been wearing a seatbelt (with ROPS of course).

Man run over by lawn mower at golf course

BROOMFIELD, COLORADO - A man working on the Omni Gold Golf Course and the Camden Apartments was severely injured Monday morning by a lawn mower.

North Metro Fire and paramedics arrived at the course near the 6th hole just before 10 a.m. and found a man who had been run over by a riding lawn mower.

Officials say the man was on the riding lawn mower when he went down a steep embankment and fell off his seat. The mower then ran over him with the blade still cutting.

Before paramedics arrived, employees and nearby golfers helped the man at the scene. Pieces of flesh were spread over 10 yards and his left hand was recovered from a nearby tree. The man was then taken by AirLife to Denver Health Medical Center to be treated.

Details about his current condition and identity were not immediately released.

grsthegreat · Dec 29, 2011

Mace Canute said:
Came across this news article. Sounds like he wouldn't have been hurt if he had been wearing a seatbelt (with ROPS of course).

er.... riding mowers dont have seat belts do they? my husky sure doesn't

murphy1244 · Dec 29, 2011

I don't have a seat belt, BUT my Simplicity would have shut down as soon :ashamedas I left the seat.... Something stinks here....

rgs03833 · Dec 29, 2011

murphy1244 said:
I don't have a seat belt, BUT my Simplicity would have shut down as soon :ashamedas I left the seat.... Something stinks here....

Yea, kinda strange... Mine doesn't have a seat belt either and as soon you get off the seat, the engine shut off as a safety measures...

Well, he could have fallen off his seat and left his Butt on the seat, that can happen right?

LMFAO

Thank God my Butt is attached to my body, I would have left it somewhere or on a seat somewhere long ago... LMFAO :laughing:

Marveltone · Dec 29, 2011

Safety switches in seats can be disabled with very little effort. Perhaps somebody circumvented this one as a "time saving" measure.

Joe

mjw357 · Dec 29, 2011

grsthegreat said:
er.... riding mowers dont have seat belts do they? my husky sure doesn't

If he was mowing the greens, I am sure it wasn't a small riding mower as the news story implies. Usually very large (wide cut) machines.

edlegault · Dec 29, 2011

This will probably be an OSHA type matter since it appears it was work related. If any safety equipment was removed/disabled heads will roll and there will be a huge lawsuit... probably settled out of court.

Mace Canute · Dec 29, 2011

mjw357 said:
If he was mowing the greens, I am sure it wasn't a small riding mower as the news story implies. Usually very large (wide cut) machines.

That was initially my thinking as well, but in retrospect it might have been a small riding lawn mower if they used one for tight spots where using the larger ones wouldn't be practical or maybe even possible but the statement that "pieces of flesh were spread over 10 yards and his left hand was recovered from a nearby tree" lead me to believe it was a larger more powerful unit. It really could have been either.

Jim Shooz · Dec 29, 2011

Back mid October a bloke I know was getting his tractor/mower ready to go and mow his neighbours place when he got his shirt caught in the PTO shaft. As he was being dragged downwards he put his left arm out to save himself, straight into the blades of the mower. The mower kept chopping his arm to just past the elbow.

He had already lost his left leg just below the knee in a well drilling accident some years before.

Two weeks later the neighbours saw him driving up the road !!!

He's a tough old ba**ard

grsthegreat · Dec 29, 2011

Jim Shooz said:
Back mid October a bloke I know was getting his tractor/mower ready to go and mow his neighbours place when he got his shirt caught in the PTO shaft. As he was being dragged downwards he put his left arm out to save himself, straight into the blades of the mower. The mower kept chopping his arm to just past the elbow.

He had already lost his left leg just below the knee in a well drilling accident some years before.

Two weeks later the neighbours saw him driving up the road !!!

He's a tough old ba**ard

HEHE ok , now that reminds me of the old Monty Python skit
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdxC-lNOFJo]Monty Python And The Holy Grail - YouTube[/ame]

Jim Shooz · Dec 29, 2011

I thought about adding in "it's only a flesh wound" but wasn't too sure about Monty Python type humour being well known over there.

This bloke was blind in one eye but after this accident he found he could now see out of both eyes.

yooper1 · Dec 29, 2011

Jim Shooz said:
Back mid October a bloke I know was getting his tractor/mower ready to go and mow his neighbours place when he got his shirt caught in the PTO shaft. As he was being dragged downwards he put his left arm out to save himself, straight into the blades of the mower. The mower kept chopping his arm to just past the elbow.

He had already lost his left leg just below the knee in a well drilling accident some years before.

Two weeks later the neighbours saw him driving up the road !!!

He's a tough old ba**ard

If by chance he lost both the left arm and left leg, is he all right now?

Bear Foot Farm · Dec 29, 2011

If by chance he lost both the left arm and left leg, is he all right now?

:laughing:

Marveltone · Dec 29, 2011

yooper1 said:
If by chance he lost both the left arm and left leg, is he all right now?

Where's the rim-shot when you need it? :confused2:

Joe

Mace Canute · Dec 29, 2011

Speaking of tough buggers...quite some time ago one of the men that worked out of a small rural power company office told us about a guy that got caught in a big round baler. It ripped both his arms off at the shoulders. Apparently when arteries are torn apart they retract and shrink in size and ended up closing off so that he didn't bleed out. It also ripped off ALL of his clothes except his workboots and socks. He couldn't drive his tractor or truck and he couldn't even work the telephone so he walked to the neighbours about 3/4 of a mile away. When he got there he went up to the house door and let them know he was there. The housewife opened and door and saw him...buck naked, armless and covered in blood. Talk about a shocking sight! He lived but was said to have become a "miserable old *******" as the guy said who knew him and told me the story...

Another guy we all good naturedly called Lunchbucket was a Lineman and he was involved in building an electrical substation. He was sitting up on top of the A-Frame steel structure that held the buss work in preparation to setting the bay switch. The radial arm digger they used was parked close to the structure and they lifted the fairly heavy switch up to the top, about 20 feet or so. They failed to notice or underestimated the hazard of the outrigger leg being close to a foot deep trench that the 4/0 bare copper ground wire was installed in and when the weight of the machine came on the outrigger, the trench collapsed and the load dropped very quickly. It came down and the base of the switch slid along the steel 4x4 that he was sitting on and cut his leg off mid thigh like a freaking huge scissors. That guy climbed down the steel on his own with no help! They got a tourniquet, etc on him and slowed the bleeding enough to get him to a hospital before he bled out. He went back to farming after that.

I think he's the toughest guy I know.

Marveltone · Dec 29, 2011

Mace Canute said:
Speaking of tough buggers...quite some time ago one of the men that worked out of a small rural power company office told us about a guy that got caught in a big round baler. It ripped both his arms off at the shoulders. Apparently when arteries are torn apart they retract and shrink in size and ended up closing off so that he didn't bleed out. It also ripped off ALL of his clothes except his workboots and socks. He couldn't drive his tractor or truck and he couldn't even work the telephone so he walked to the neighbours about 3/4 of a mile away. When he got there he went up to the house door and let them know he was there. The housewife opened and door and saw him...buck naked, armless and covered in blood. Talk about a shocking sight! He lived but was said to have become a "miserable old *******" as the guy said who knew him and told me the story...

Another guy we all good naturedly called Lunchbucket was a Lineman and he was involved in building an electrical substation. He was sitting up on top of the A-Frame steel structure that held the buss work in preparation to setting the bay switch. The radial arm digger they used was parked close to the structure and they lifted the fairly heavy switch up to the top, about 20 feet or so. They failed to notice or underestimated the hazard of the outrigger leg being close to a foot deep trench that the 4/0 bare copper ground wire was installed in and when the weight of the machine came on the outrigger, the trench collapsed and the load dropped very quickly. It came down and the base of the switch slid along the steel 4x4 that he was sitting on and cut his leg off mid thigh like a freaking huge scissors. That guy climbed down the steel on his own with no help! They got a tourniquet, etc on him and slowed the bleeding enough to get him to a hospital before he bled out. He went back to farming after that.

I think he's the toughest guy I know.

Don't mess with those guys from Saskatchewan, they breed'em tough up there! :shocked:

Joe