Here is a brief timeline encompassing the history of ul325 and its effect on garage door related deaths and injuries.
Garage door deaths per year.
Garage doors have caused multiple deaths per year commonly to children.
Only about 100 of these are caused by personal negligence like a child or pet trying to dash under a closing door.
March 1982 october 1992.
Race to beat the door.
Employee trips and falls over door sill fractures multiple.
Young children under the age of 15 see approximately 8 serious injuries or deaths per year as a result of garage doors that would not stop closing or reverse.
Nearly 7 600 of these injuries stem from pinching or crushing fingers between the panels of the garage door as it closes.
Employee fractures femur in fall from bus.
People trying to get through the opening before the door closed.
Lacerations from garage door window glass.
Miscellaneous injuries due to doors needing repairs.
And sadly even death.
An estimated 12 700 garage door injuries occur in the u s.
Furthermore they lead to approximately 20 000 injuries annually not including those incidents that are not reported or treated in medical facilities.
The remaining injuries can be attributed to mechanical problems with the garage.
Half of these were fingers caught between rollers and tracks.
Product consumer safety commission reports that the vast majority of these injuries are to fingers and hands.
The result is gummy and messy but there aren t any sharp edges.
Many garage door accidents occur as a result of a garage door.
Over 2 000 injuries are caused by falling doors or becoming trapped under the door when attempting to race beneath it as it closes.
Should they break which is rare it s similar to when a car window breaks.
About a hundred of these injuries typically occur when individuals unwisely try to run beneath a garage door as it is closing.
Each year more than 30 000 people are injured by automatic garage doors a large number of them small children garage door accidents are oftentimes catastrophic resulting in broken bones severe head and brain injuries and spinal cord injuries.
Employee is caught between hanger doors and is killed.
Employee is killed after striking head on metal rolling door.