Lacerations americans affected.
How many people are killed by garage door springs.
If you re concerned about tackling this project on your own consider hiring out the job to a professional.
If your garage door isn t operating properly the torsion springs are likely to blame.
Owners manuals include detailed precautions and warnings which include the following.
Serious injury or death can be caused by the projectile pieces of a failed torsion spring.
A garage door with a broken spring or the wrong strength spring can fall.
Now that garages use torsion springs people very rarely get injured.
How to fix a garage door spring.
As a result of these tragedies garage door manufacturers are making extreme efforts to minimize risk and maximize safety.
To get injured by them you need to be up close and working on them.
About 800 americans will suffer lacerations when the window glass in their garage doors breaks.
Many are also caused by garage doors sliding down on people.
I ve been hurt working on them once.