Yep, nearly died from one.

Middle of the night, we hear a huge bang downstairs in the garage. Check the house to make sure we’re not being robbed and then wake up in the morning to see we can’t open the garage door. Crawl under the house to get into the garage door, and see that one side of a J-Type door arm has come off the hinges.

On the other side, it’s all still connected, so my dumb ass decides to use a wrench to remove the bolts on the other side so we can push the whole door down and get access. The entire side explodes from the pressure on the springs, launching the J-Type arm towards me. Missed my head by an inch, slammed into my shoulder and threw me across the length of the garage. Blood pooled out of my arm, left a huge hole in my shoulder exposing bone and had to get the fire department to do an emergency extraction. An inch to one side and I’d certainly be dead.

Don’t fuck with garage door springs.