A UF maintenance worker was operating a lawn mower when it fell and pinned him to the ground Tuesday.
At about 10:39 a.m., Glenn Davis, a ground team’s member of the UF Physical Plant Division, was driving a lawn mower uphill across the road from Beaty Towers, when the vehicle started to slide backwards, said University Police spokesperson Maj. Brad Barber.
Davis, 37, fell back and was pinned underneath the lawn mower, Barber said.
Haris Khan, an employee for the UF Department of Housing and Residence Education, said he saw the top of the lawn mower and bystanders while he was driving on Museum Road. He and another colleague got out of the car to see what happened.
“I heard a very loud scream, and I rushed towards it,” he said. “I saw the victim. He was in complete agony.”
He said blood gushed from Davis’ head. Khan, his co-worker, a police officer and another individual helped to free Davis.
“They assisted him from getting out underneath the lawn mower,” Barber said
In the aftermath of the accident, UPD closed Museum Road for 20 minutes and Davis was taken to UF Health Shands Hospital with lacerations on both legs, said UF spokesperson John Hines.
Barber said police were grateful for all the help they received while freeing Davis.
“With good teamwork, we all pulled him out,” Khan said.
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A crew from the UF Physical Plant Division pulls a lawnmower out of a ditch after a worker fell into the ditch and injured his leg while mowing grass by Museum Road on Tuesday. Physical Plant Division workers watching the lawnmower get pulled from the ditch said they know and work with the man who was injured.
