AP: Mower accident kills Lincoln, Ne. man

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20100820/NEWS01/708219898#mower-accident-kills-lincoln-man

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln city worker has died from injuries he sustained when a riding lawn mower rolled on top of him.

Hospital spokeswoman Deb Hartman-Boehle says 37-year-old Eric Kohles died Friday morning. He had been hospitalized since the mower accident on Monday afternoon.

City officials have said Kohles was mowing a drainage easement when the mower rolled. Two workers found him trapped beneath the 1,200-pound mower. Kohles had worked for the city for about 2 years.

The city has suspended mowing ditches while officials investigate the accident.

[Tesha]

1. People routinely mow on slopes that would scare the manure out of me.

I suspect we'll find that he was operating well-
outside the recommended operating range of the
device.

I also wonder whether 1) the mower was required
to have a roll bar/roll cage (or offered one as
an option) and 2) whether it had such a device.

Tesha

[Qanisqineq]

2. I would have thought

that the mower would be required to have a safety shut off. I thought all riding lawn mowers had the safety feature where it shut off if there was no pressure on the seat.

[hlthe2b]

4. I don't know that he wasn't crushed.... If so, an emergency shut off

would not have helped.

[Qanisqineq]

6. oh, of course

I was thinking of something much more gory. :(

[Uben]

3. We had a guy die like that..........

....he was mowing next the water in our lake. He got too close to the edge and the mower tipped over pinning him below water level, drowning him. What a terrible way to go.

[postulater]

5. We had a guy pulled into a chipper a few years ago.

Splattered.

Nothing left.

I don't know which way would be worse.

But I'm thinking the splattering.