New shelves head wound.

ROFL! I can laugh because I’ve been there, done just that! OUCH.
I’m sure a piece of fluorescent warning tape hanging from the corner would minimize if not prevent the chances of this happening AGAIN until you get used to it. Hanging some coats on it might help, but sure as anything, you’ll come rushing in when no coats are hanging and…here we go again. Or you could also put a large foam pad duct taped to the end. But I really think the better solution is to relocate the thing so it is not a protrusion into a passage.

Knock some sense into you, you did.

DanK

-- Dan Krager, Olney IL http://www.kragerwoodworking.weebly.com

Been there, done that, still have the scar from the home made band saw blade tensioner lever!

-- Lew- Time traveler. Purveyor of the world's finest custom rolling pins!

My shop used to have a 17’ wooden door (garage door). It hung at 5’11”. Unfortunately I am 6’3”; over the years I have cracked my head about a dozen times. Five years ago, I got a roll up door with clearance of 6’7”. I find that I still duck when going through that door.

-- Made in America, with American made tools....Shopsmith

One time my overhead garage door was not fully up. I was walking out of the garage and stirring some paint at the same time. When my forehead smashed the bottom of the door, my first reaction was, “What was that banging sound?!”

Just yesterday I was fitting the tenon on an apron to the mortise in the leg. I had the leg in a vice and was pulling up on the apron to get it out. It released suddenly, and I whacked myself in the forehead with the other end of the apron. Luckily, it missed my eye by an inch, and I had smoothed the edges of the tenon for an easier fit. I got away with a bruise and a new lesson learned. I wish I had that on video.

-- "I hope that women never find out about duct tape. Once they do, men will no longer serve any useful purpose." - Dave Barry

Thanks for the interest and follow-ups to this post everyone. If you are all like me, I find myself laughing about it quite a bit.

ChuckV, I too thought about what would have happened if I was standing a little more upright and hit part of my eye. That thought makes me cringe rather than laugh.