Garage Door Spring Accidents

The overhead garage door is usually the largest mechanical thing around your house.

Garage door spring accidents.

The major garage safety issue and the most dangerous component of the overhead door is the garage door spring or springs depending on the design which supports the entire weight of the door panels sometimes over 400 pounds and helps you to lift lower the entire door assembly. I thought both springs were broken on a two car garage. I ve been hurt working on them once. The victim was closing the garage door at the time of the incident and was standing directly beneath the door.

Now that garages use torsion springs people very rarely get injured. To get injured by them you need to be up close and working on them. A 32 year old male lumber yardman died after being struck by a 1 200 pound steel commercial garage door.