KUMAMOTO (TR) – Kumamoto Prefectural Police revealed on Thursday that a man caught in the blades of a grass-cutting tractor in the town of Kashima earlier in the week later died.
At around 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday, the operator stopped the tractor after the blades became jammed on a riverbed of Midorikawa River, reports Nippon News Network (July 25). After finding the man caught in the blades, the operator alerted police.
Police later determined that the body is that Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, a 40-year-old resident of Minami Ward, Kumamoto City.
Since Yamamoto’s body had no external trauma other than that caused by being caught in the tractor blades, police believe that he was alive just before the incident and died from those injuries.
Go for walks
Yamamoto lived with his mother, and police learned that he was at home Thursday morning. Though he took walks on a daily basis, it is not known whether the scene of the accide was found was on his walking route.
The operator which was cutting grass to be used as feed for cattle. At the scene of the incident, the height of the grass in the riverbed was about 1.9 meters high. It is not known why Yamamoto was there or what he was doing at the time of the incident.
In addition to investigating the circumstances that led to the incident, police are considering whether the case was the result of professional negligence resulting in death.
