[Kevin Sevcik]

I think robots can potentially reach much farther into the goal corral than the mobile goal, what with arms and pointy things and all. A mobile goal can't extend farther than 10" into the goal corral, and that's the pointy end. At that, the goal is only 6" or 7" up off the floor. I can't see any obvious pinch points without an HP extending his hand up to or outside the diamond plate boundary, which is already out of bounds. Thus, I would think the only dangers are: getting a pretty bad bruise if your hand is within 10" of the front of the ball corral without a ball in front of it to push it out of the way, or getting your hand run over if you've got it on the ground within 10" of the front of the goal, for some reason. I can't see much of a way to lose fingers without breaking the safety rules already in place.

I'll agree that it's a bit of a safety hazard, but not nearly as much as a robot extending in and/or purposely interacting with an HP. The key point being that FIRST knows pretty much exactly how a goal and corral can interact, but can't predict what robots will look like and how they will act.