GA pilot reported pulling the incorrect lever inflight resulting in locking the wheel on landing and...

Attributes
ACN	1717312
Time
Date	201911
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Small Aircraft
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Captain Single Pilot Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Instrument
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 10 Flight Crew Total 2165 Flight Crew Type 562
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft

Narrative:

The parking brake lever and heat lever knob are exactly the same; one above the other. In-flight; the parking brake was pulled instead of the heat lever. Upon landing roll-out and actuation of brake pedals; the parking brake engaged and locked the wheels. The plane skidded in a wheel landing down the runway; as energy decreased the plane slowly rotated forward on the main gear striking the prop on the grass runway and eventually nosing over onto the cowl/nose. The leading edge outer pilots side wingtip bow also hit the ground. Corrective actions include changing the parking brake knob to a T handle or something that is identified by touch as being different; disabling the parking brake; or adding 'check parking brake off' to pre-landing checklist as it is not part of the approved checklist.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: GA pilot reported pulling the incorrect lever inflight resulting in locking the wheel on landing and had a prop strike.

Narrative: The parking brake lever and heat lever knob are exactly the same; one above the other. In-flight; the parking brake was pulled instead of the heat lever. Upon landing roll-out and actuation of brake pedals; the parking brake engaged and locked the wheels. The plane skidded in a wheel landing down the runway; as energy decreased the plane slowly rotated forward on the main gear striking the prop on the grass runway and eventually nosing over onto the cowl/nose. The leading edge outer pilots side wingtip bow also hit the ground. Corrective actions include changing the parking brake knob to a T handle or something that is identified by touch as being different; disabling the parking brake; or adding 'check parking brake off' to pre-landing checklist as it is not part of the approved checklist.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.