A lot of electric razors have metal meshes designed to pull in hairs, but keep the blades away from the skin. Something like this could work well on a lawnmower. The holes in the mesh could be fairly large. They would need to be just small enough to make it hard to stick your finger through.
Not only would this reduce the chance of people having unfortunate accidents with lawn mowers but it could also reduce the chance of other problems. It would be a lot harder to run over a lawn hose for example. Rocks and branches wouldn't get sucked up and spit out.
To get it to work, the grill should not be horizontal, but rather at a slight angle to help catch the grass rather than just push it down.
Such a device could be sold in a kit that could be retrofitted to existing lawn mowers or come pre-attached.
With safer lawnmowers it could become more reasonable to have automated Roomba like lawnmowers without worrying about them killing us all.
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