How often are people struck by ceiling fans? 
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All the time, I don’t think that I have ever owned a ceiling fan that I didn’t manage to stick my arm into.(Putting on a shirt, for example.)
I often (always) stick my hand inside of a ceiling fan just for giggles.
I’ve been hit by the one above my bed a few times. Usually just a glancing blow, not enough to ruin the mood.
What position was THAT?! 
<reaches for copy of Kama Sutra>
Each year, more than 19,700 people are injured by ceiling fans that are improperly mounted or incorrectly sized. - See more at: Homepage - Electrical Safety Foundation
I do not know if this includes injuries received during incompetent installation and/or falling fans.
As far as just being “struck” by an active fan, I doubt there are statistics. Most of the time the fan would be blowing downward, and so striking it would typically result in nothing more than a glancing blow from a trailing edge.
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I wouldn’t bet on that. :dubious:
with or without a trampoline in the room?
I believe that is the one wherein he rides towards her on a zebra, while she spits pomegranate seeds at him.
Damn. Misleading thread title. 
I was hoping to interact with others who, like myself, are really into ceilings.
And even if you did manage to get more than just a glancing blow, the fan blades are pretty light and the motor is pretty weak. Unless you are talking about one of those big metal industrial models, it’s pretty difficult to give yourself any kind of serious injury from a typical ceiling fan.
I have tall friends and relatives who seem to walk into ceiling fans with alarming regularity. There has never been a need for them to seek medical treatment and there’s been no need to report the incidents to anyone else either.
I stupidly put my finders into an industrial fan one and while it smarted as hell, it didn’t cut them off.
My friend’s girl was hurt by a ceiling fan that fell on her, striking her head with the motor. I know that not what the OP wanted, but it did require treatment.
I’ve only seen it once. When the youngest son was a growing teen, he stretched and put a fist up into a ceiling fan. The wooden blade was fine, but the metal attachment snapped. We couldn’t find a replacement for sale, but eventually scavenged one from a fan with a broken motor.
We have three fans, and I have managed not to put any appendage into any of them. But I’m not seven feet tall and I don’t do things like bungee jumping either.
When I installed them I did worry about them falling on me or someone else, but I seem to have done a good enough job so it never happened.
Does the fan stop when it senses an obstruction? That would seem to make sense.
Well, kinda. More to the point, the motor just isn’t strong enough to keep it going through, say, a human arm or finger or whatever. Also, ceiling fan blades are often (though not always) fairly thick (1/4" or so) wood with blunt edges, which, at the maybe several hundreds of RPM a ceiling fan will be turning at, just aren’t ideal for slicing through flesh and bone.
If you ever visit someone’s house, and you look at the ceiling fan and notice that the blades are actually katanas… you may want to avoid the area directly underneath the fan.
Man, I like the way you think.
I laughed.
That depends on whether or not you’ve raised your hand up quickly and forcefully enough, IMO.
If you mean does the fan have a sensor that will automatically sense an obstruction and ‘disengage’ or cease imparting rotational force (ie: kill the power to the motor), then the answer is, ‘none that I know of’.
And I’ve installed quite a few, (between 40 and 50 fans) over the years.
Chief Pedant postulates that “Most of the time the fan would be blowing downward, and so striking it would typically result in nothing more than a glancing blow from a trailing edge.”
I’ll concede that this is probably what happens the majority of the time…
But, As Yllaria pointed out, his “youngest son was a growing teen, (and) he stretched and put a fist up into a ceiling fan. The wooden blade was fine, but the metal attachment snapped.” So, it is possible to ‘stop’ the blades from moving
momentarily, but the motor will still keep trying to turn the (remaining) blades until the power to the motor is turned off. :eek:
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LawMonkey is correct, in the sense that typically, (especially in older models) the blades are made out of wood (or plastic) and have a somewhat blunt edge. Some of the newer models though, have metal blades and might be able to deliver a fairly nasty cut or even break a finger, if the fan were turning at it’s highest speed.
Speaking of which, according to the spec sheet at Hunter Fans web site, the highest rpm produced in their fastest turning model is only 275 rpms, with most models producing right at or slightly less than 200 rpms (on ‘high’).
I’m still waiting on Si Amigo to tell us what ‘position’ he was using. 
I’ve hit my head quite badly on a ceiling fan - luckily, it was turning quite slowly, and although the blades were made of metal, they had blunt edges. I got a heck of a lump on the side of my head but no blood or other damage.
Before anyone asks, I was standing on a table to try and reach a cobweb in the very corner of the room with a duster. No positions of any sort were involved.
A couple of years later, I had sparrows nesting in a corner of my room (this was in India, so wide open windows and I was really interested in birds at the time, so I did nothing to discourage them - it was fascinating to watch the whole nest-building process) and several weeks in, the male got spooked by something and flew straight into the fan. They’d always flown straight from the nest to the window, but this one time something went wrong and he either didn’t see that it was on or was so spooked that he just panicked.
It ended up actually beheading him - very fast, very neat. No blood that I can remember, just the two bits of the sparrow falling down and landing on the floor. Not a very pleasant sight, but I suppose it was so quick as to be almost painless.
Let’s just say that she was hanging onto the fan blades. 