What is the safety impact of a partially open garage door?
Leaving a garage door partially open is not uncommon. As this use has become more widespread, it raises the concern whether attempts to squeeze under a stationary, partially open garage door could result in entrapment. If an electrical garage door operator is activated remotely or unintentionally, there may be increased risk to a pinned individual if the door travels further in the closing direction or an operator is unresponsive upon user activation of the control. Why would a door travel in an undesired direction or not open upon control activation? Depending upon how the user arranged the partially open condition (stop on close or stop on open), the operator may seek to continue in the interrupted direction. Successfully activating the control could conceivably make the situation worse. In an emergency situation, the rescuing individual may panic and press control buttons multiple times in rapid succession. This form of input could be misinterpreted by the logic of the door operator
