Handling hazards

摘要

It may not look it, but mowing is one of the most dangerous jobs in grounds care. There have been three mower-related fatalities since 2001, while the regional press reports regularly on workers sustaining injuries while mowing. Last year a 35-year-old man died after his ride-on mower toppled into a ditch in a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, while a gardener on an Oxfordshire estate lost a leg after being thrown from a ride-on mower. And already this month a council worker in Derbyshire suffered serious injuries when his ride-on mower slid down an embankment and toppled over a wall onto a road.