Garage Door Injuries

Miscellaneous injuries due to doors needing repairs.

Garage door injuries.

As the retained expert witness on many overhead door injury and wrongful death cases some of the injuries i have seen include injured or severed fingers and limbs bodily trauma and death. This can happen in a number of ways. Another common garage door accident is people getting their fingers caught in the garage door tracks as it is opening or closing which can cause severe injuries. Half of these were fingers caught between rollers and tracks.

Getting hit with a falling garage door. This happens more often than you might think and it s one of the most dangerous accidents that can occur with a falling garage door. Residential doors on average weigh about 150 pounds. Every year over 7 550 americans suffer pinching injuries most often when fingers get caught between the panels of the garage door.

Most common garage door injuries. The national electronic injury surveillance system neiss has reported statistics on garage door accidents showing that more than 2 000 people per year are crushed by garage doors and more than 7 500 people are pinched during garage door operation. Lacerations from garage door window glass. The most common injury from a defective garage door is the door falling on an individual although injuries can also occur when these powerful doors are not correctly controlled and move with too much force in either an upward or downward direction.

Lacerations from door hardware or tracks. A 32 year old male lumber yardman died after being struck by a 1 200 pound steel commercial garage door. Pinching fingers between the rollers and the tracks is also common. Fingers getting caught in the sections of the garage door the garage door being lowered onto somebody injuries caused by someone attempting to repair a garage door problem themselves.

Shortly after he activated the door the door free fell and crushed him. The victim was closing the garage door at the time of the incident and was standing directly beneath the door. Person working on a door. A specialist can analyze areas of concern and make necessary repairs before they become potential safety hazards.

To help protect yourself here are some of the most common garage door injuries and how you can avoid them.