wow that's awful, but I from what I hear, it happens more often than you'd think.
I always wondered how on earth anybody could screw up enough to cause an injury with a lawn mower - until I almost lost my left foot to a lawn tractor.
Going around a steep uphill corner - wet grass - started sliding backwards as my wife was pulling the car into the driveway behind me - just instinctively (panicked) put my foot down onto the ground to stop the slide (small tractor, long legs)
- obviously that didn't work - kept sliding - mower deck pinned my foot down with my foot right under the spinning blades. Blades had to have been just millimeters over my boot.
Hit the kill switch real quick, but had that blade been just a fraction of an inch lower, "real quick" wouldn't have made a whole lot of difference.
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