Overview

• Responders were called about 12:41 p.m. Saturday to the 28700 block of West Kristy Lane near Cary, Illinois, for the traumatic injury.
• Sheriff’s officials said the 3½-year-old had been riding on a stand-on industrial mower with his father and fell or jumped off as it backed up.
• The child suffered a significant leg amputation, according to authorities.
• A neighbor applied a makeshift tourniquet with a T-shirt, which officials said likely helped control life-threatening bleeding.
• Paramedics transported the child to the Mercyhealth Crystal Lake helipad for a medical flight to Loyola University Medical Center, where he remains critical.