Full PPE prevents serious injury to Instructor

During a recent training exercise, I was demonstrating various methods of forcible entry on a door prop. While demonstrating how to force an inward swinging door, I inserted the adz end of the Haligan into the door jam and began to pull down to “gap” the door. The adz slipped out of the door jam causing the Haligan to kick back and strike the front of my helmet with great force. My only injury was a slight headache and a small mark on my forehead caused by the inside of my helmet.   Imagine the outcome had I not been wearing a helmet.