Garage Door Fatalities

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.

Garage door fatalities.

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. Garage doors have caused multiple deaths per year commonly to children. Guy the owner arrived in a short time and quickly repaired the damaged base of the weather seal and installed a replacement seal strip. Employee is caught between hanger doors and is killed.

The nebraska department of labor was notified by telephone on august 19 1994 by the local police department that responded to the incident scene. Employee is killed after striking head on metal rolling door. Furthermore they lead to approximately 20 000 injuries annually not including those incidents that are not reported or treated in medical facilities. 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. Product consumer safety commission reports that the vast majority of these injuries are to fingers and hands. Only about 100 of these are caused by personal negligence like a child or pet trying to dash under a closing door. On august 19 1994 a 32 year old lumber yardman died when a commercial garage door fell on him.

Employee trips and falls over door sill fractures multiple. 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. My garage door s bottom weather seal was damaged in a minor accident so i called urban garage door to fix it. Employee fractures femur in fall from bus.