Garage Door Fatalities

All of that being said however there are some things to know when you are in the situation where you or someone else has hit your garage door.

Garage door fatalities. Garage doors have caused multiple deaths per year commonly to children. On august 19 1994 a 32 year old lumber yardman died when a commercial garage door fell on him. Product consumer safety commission reports that the vast majority of these injuries are to fingers and hands. This type of garage door injury is becoming less and less common as older doors with regular glass are replaced with new doors that feature shatter resistant glass.

Employee trips and falls over door sill fractures multiple. The nebraska department of labor was notified by telephone on august 19 1994 by the local police department that responded to the incident scene. Guy the owner arrived in a short time and quickly repaired the damaged base of the weather seal and installed a replacement seal strip. The face evaluator accompanied an osha investigator to the incident site on august 22 and 23 1994 and interviewed the employer witnesses to the incident the police officer responding to the incident and the county coroner.

Employee is caught between hanger doors and is killed. In a few recent cases tenants have suffered head and neck trauma after being struck with a malfunctioning door system. In other cases body parts have been severed and amputated when door safety devices were improperly positioned not functioning correctly or simply removed after the original installation. 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.

This type of glass is similar to the glass used in car windows so when it breaks it creates small dull chunks rather than wicked shards. The garage door is often one of the first casualties of inexperienced drivers and in many ways is a much better casualty than real people or drivers out on the road. Employee is killed after striking head on metal rolling door. Employee fractures femur in fall from bus.