This recall involves 1023E, 1025R and 2025R Compact Utility Tractors with the model number and “John Deere” printed on the hood. The recalled tractors are green and yellow, and were sold with both opened and closed operator stations.

John Deere has issued a recall of about 164,700 compact utility tractors sold nationwide from November 2017 through July 2024.

The world’s largest farm machinery maker has received four reports of the tractor’s brake linkage failing, with one person hospitalized.

John Deere recalled more than 148,000 compact utility tractors. The front bell crank in the brake linkage can fail, preventing the operator from engaging the brake. The tractor could crash.

John Deere is voluntarily recalling more than 164,000 Compact Utility Tractors across the U.S. and Canada because they can lose braking ability, posing crash hazards, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.