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Originally Posted by TheMagicPenguin
When a volunteer signs up for field reset I believe they should have expected some level of danger. When I did feild reset this year I defiantly got some cuts on my hands and such (as I expected to), but I didn't complain saying that the rough terrain should be forbidden because I got hurt on it. I put my hand where I shouldn't have and after that I didn't do it again.
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For one thing, comparing multiple people seriously and permanently injuring their fingers and hands (broken bones, etc) to being cut by a sharp edge is just callous. You didn't complain, because you
weren't seriously injured. If you were, especially by something you didn't perceive to have such serious risk, you wouldn't be making armchair calls on the internet about how other volunteers should just suck it up.
The ways the portcullis injured people were not always intuitively obvious, and were very easy for someone to do to themselves. From what I understand, the assembly tends to fall apart when not installed in a base (via twisting or whatnot), and trying to catch the falling heavy door leaves your fingers very vulnerable to being pinched. The CF springs at the top of the door also have lots of stored energy and sharp edges.
After week 3 or 4 this year, your common-sense idea of keeping volunteers away from the portcullis was implemented at some events - only FTAs were allowed to assemble it I believe. It was known to be dangerous since then, and was kept in the competition to be fair to the competitors and to avoid mid season rule changes.