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18-The Broken Guard: Anatomy of a Landscaping Fatality
What started as an ordinary Saturday morning landscaping job ended in tragedy.
On June 6, 2015, a 31-year-old employee of Perry’s Maintenance in western New York was operating a string trimmer while a coworker used a riding lawn mower nearby. The mower struck a rock and launched it from beneath the deck, striking the worker in the back of the head. He suffered severe blunt-force head trauma and died four days later.
But OSHA’s investigation uncovered something even more troubling: the mower’s discharge chute was missing its protective guard, and the bracket used to attach that guard had…
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