End-of-aisle endcap with minimal base deck exposes hooks to sidewipes from carts, and customers to hangups and injury. Here heavy gauge frontwires and stalwart metal plate fronts are badly misshapen, and stamped backplates are pulled through the pegboard by run-ins. Aside from an adequate base deck with rounded corners as a guard, what else would address the situation? Forgiving extruded plastic label holders for the customers, and better backplates that distribute the load across a broader area of the pegboard back. These knife-like hook backplate prongs were a single thickness of metal wide, and prone to shear right through the board.
If you have any other ideas for viable retail guide rail, post as a comment, please. And you will find it interesting to note the difference between “Guide Rail” and “Guard Rail,” in this situation and your everyday highway driving. Check out the definition, your friendly, local Traffic Engineer will be glad you did.
For a related hook safety posts SEE…
“Careful Alexis! Sharp Hooks”
“How to Avoid Being Hit on the Head in Retail”For noteworthy fixture failures see…
“Gondola Base Deck Takes a Hit”
“Aluminum Boxer-Style Hook Failure”
“Misshapen Aluminum Hooks”
“Malleable Aluminum Grid Hooks”
“So Sorry. Aluminum Hook in Play”
“Faceout Failure on Slatwire”
“Failed Reverse Waterfall Hook”
“How to Avoid Frontwire Sag”
“Plastic Grid Hooks Fail”
“Rare Hook Lug Failure”
“Hook Lug Failure Redux”
“Plastic Hook Innovates But Falls Short”
“Hook has Two Monkey Load Limit”
“Plastic Hooks Beyond Limits”
“Anti-Theft Fixture Failure”
“Productstop Fails Christmas Crush”
“Label Holder Wrecks Store Image”
“Sidesaddle Label Holder Fails”
“Ideas Wanted: Retail Guard Rail”For a visual Pinterest Board summary see…
“Failures in Fixtures“