Police: 1-year-old loses three toes in accident involving electric lawn mower

A 1-year-old lost three toes during an accident involving an electric lawn mower in Wolcott on Monday.

The boy was initially taken to an area hospital and later to the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center after police officers and medics responded to a home on Munson Road just before 7 p.m., according to Edward Stephens, chief of the Wolcott Police Department.

Responding officers found the father of the boy holding the crying child with a compress on his foot to control the bleeding from the accident, Stephens said. The boy was taken in an ambulance to St. Mary’s Hospital before he was transferred to CCMC.

According to Stephens, the boy lost three toes during an accident involving his 10-year-old sister. The sister was operating the family’s new electric lawn mower while in the yard with her father and siblings.

Stephens said the father reported hearing the mower make an odd sound before he heard the 1-year-old crying and saw the boy’s leg under the mower. The father pulled the mower off the child before emergency crews responded.

According to Stephens, the boy’s sister said she did not know how to turn the new mower off as the 1-year-old ran after her. He fell down and his leg ended up under the mower, Stephens said.