Mowers in Washington’s national parks are silent after fatal accident
May 15, 2012, 2:42 PM | Updated: 3:56 pm
After a maintenance worker at a park in North Carolina drove his lawn mower down an embankment and died, the National Park Service has ordered its 397 parks across the county to stop mowing. (AP Photo)
(AP Photo)
After a maintenance worker at a park in North Carolina drove
his lawn mower down an embankment and died, the National
Park Service has ordered its 397 parks across the county to
stop mowing.
Dana Bruce, 63, died after his riding mower fell more than
140 feet down a boulder-strewn embankment May 7. He was
pronounced dead at the scene.
Kevin Bacher, a spokesman for Mount Rainier National Park,
says even though the death was on the other side of the
country, lawn mowers in Washington’s three national parks
aren’t moving.
“At Mount Rainier, we don’t do a lot of mowing, but we are
honoring the safety stand down that is happening
nationwide.”
Bacher says they’ll fire the mowers back up as soon as
they’ve completed all of their safety checks, probably in a
couple of days.
