Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221476880

THE GREENERY, INC.

Event
Drown, Drowning, Lawn Mower, Trapped, Water
NAICS
561730
Inspection type
Federal Agency
Activity number
#346066756
Employer profile
THE GREENERY, INC.
Summary number
221476880
Report ID
0419700

Event description

Employee is killed by drowning when caught underneath tracto

Investigation abstract

At 3:00 p.m. on July 7, 2022, an employee was operating a John Deere Zero-Turn ride-on mower to cut along the edge of a pond. The employee became stuck in the mud at the edge of the pond and asked his coworkers to get a tow strap to pull the mower out. When the coworkers returned from fetching the strap, they found the employee underneath the unpowered mower, with his head partially submerged in water. The employee was killed as a result of drowning.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 44 M

    Event type
    14

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.