Take a Number: Amputations and Lacerations: Your Front Lawn Is a Jungle
The accident typically happens on a spring or summer weekend, mostly to men, and the results can be severe: lacerations, fractures and even amputations. From 2006 to 2013, an estimated 51,151 people were injured while mowing the lawn, and 12,243 of them wound up losing a body part. In a study published in the journal…