Agriculture holds a very important place in India.
The modernization of the agricultural practices led to the
increased usage of machines and the accidents caused by
them. We report a case of a middle aged man who got
entangled in the belt of a thresher machine used in
agricultural farm fields but a wound over his neck
resembled cut throat injury. The cut throat wound of the
neck is usually associated with homicide or suicide with a
sharp edged weapon, so a suspicion of foul play was
raised. On careful examination with a magnifying glass, it
was noted that the injury was a lacerated wound, only
muscle deep and had not caused damage to any internal
structures of neck. On the basis of naked eye examination
this neck wound could easily have been misinterpreted
as a homicidal injury