Traffic Director Seriously Injured in Lawn Mower Accident in Ota City, Gunma Prefecture

Breaking News "Gunma Prefecture".

By AI of "Isesaki FM".

At around 8:35 am on the 15th, a male security company employee who was directing traffic for grass cutting work on the prefectural road Shinbori Oshima Line in Odo Town, Ota City, Gunma Prefecture, got his right pinky finger caught in a lawnmower and was seriously injured. The man was taken to the hospital and diagnosed with serious injuries including an open fracture that will take one month to heal.

According to the prefectural police, the man had been asked by a civil engineering company worker who was cutting grass to "help remove grass tangled in the rotating blade of the lawnmower," and when he tried to remove the tangled grass, the blade rotated for some reason, causing the injury. The man in charge at the site called 119.