Hispanic Worker Dies After Being Hit With a Projectile From a Nearby Commercial Lawnmower—North Carolina

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• Personal Author:
  Socias, Christina
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  On April 17, 2013, a 30-year-old male Hispanic lawn care worker was injured when struck in the head by a metal projectile from a coworker's lawn mower. He died on April 18, 2013, from his injuries. The lawn care worker was trimming approximately 25 feet away from his coworker when the coworker ran over a pet tie-out stake with a lawn mower. The mower sheared off part of the stake, creating a projectile that struck the lawn care worker on the side of the head. The medical examiner identified the cause of death as blunt force trauma to the head.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Emigration And Immigration Occupational Health Race Factors Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Gardeners Immigrant Workers Injuries Injury-prevention Landscape Services Workers Language Barrier Lawn And Garden Equipment OSHA Region 4 Racial Factors Safety-measures Safety-practices Surveillance Traumatic-injuries

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Hispanic ; Foreign Born Workers ; Landscaping Services
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE201304
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Interagency Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  10 pages
• Contributor:
  Lincoln, Jennifer E. ; Moore, Melanie ; Romano, Nancy T.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20047819
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2016-103235
• Citation:
  Morgantown, : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  56 - Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2013/04/17
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:94d891ea77787eeae7a29d4a3930fdebe740f43df6b29e55e958edc6e3558a1ff021dd5672ad82357b4fce32271bb622be4d129c074707e5ea270f05b1092572
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167254/cdc_167254_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 675.48 KB ]