Frankly the whole Pinto was a Design flaw.... :)
Just look at one....
Of all of the examples examples that you gave, non were from operator error. All of them were examples of products that were found to be bad by design, not because someone didn't actuate them properly.......No, when those things happen....it's called an accident....and accidents happen even with well designed products like car doors, and heat presses.
My silly post was to get people to think about how far things can be taken when "dumbing down" products, or requiring government mandates for certain kinds of fuels, or child seats until the age of 9 as in our state. To me, all of these things are a devolution of our society. Taking the responsibility from the people/parents, and putting it on the government, police, or corperations to fix our every accident, or making some other entity pay when we have one.
Yes the press could be improved as could any product......My suggestion to knight would be to use a bar that came forward with a foam handle kind of like a lawn mower handle, instead of going out like the handlebars on a bicycle. I agree entirely with Harvey that it is natural in an emergency to grab at the middle where leverage is best, but your situation wasn't an emergency. It was just a simple accident. Otherwise a basic warning sticker would probably help the average person that would put their hands on the center....I'm not entirely sure you would have looked with the description of the way you handled the machine.....but it might have helped had you looked before you "hoisted".
If all that fails........Just keep your hands off the blasted thing, you shouldn't be operating equipment of any sort. :-)
Thanks,
Brian Genrich
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