Garage Door Injuries

Residential doors on average weigh about 150 pounds.

Garage door injuries.

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. 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. Lacerations from door hardware or tracks. Fingers getting pinched in garage door.

Only about 100 of these are caused by personal negligence like a child or pet trying to dash under a closing door. To help protect yourself here are some of the most common garage door injuries and how you can avoid them. Most common garage door injuries. This can happen in a number of ways.

Getting hit with a falling garage door. The victim was closing the garage door at the time of the incident and was standing directly beneath the door. Miscellaneous injuries due to doors needing repairs. 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.

Person working on a 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. 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. 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. Pinching fingers between the rollers and the tracks is also common. Every year over 7 550 americans suffer pinching injuries most often when fingers get caught between the panels of the garage door. Shortly after he activated the door the door free fell and crushed him.

Lacerations from garage door window glass.