Between Lisa and her carpal tunnel, Chris Harper and his abcess, this should be number three I think? Hopefully the last hospital bound smf participant.
For sure Abigail, my kids fingers would also be the first thing to cross my mind. My blender's blades are within the blender pitcher and it is designed whereby the blades would lift out with the pitcher if the pitcher were ever picked up or ejected from the unit.
Do the company a favor and give them a call about an obvious design flaw. They'll feel lucky you haven't called an attorney and made a much bigger issue of it. Throw in the fact that it interupted a smoking session and maybe they'll at least send you a check for your next stash of raw meat.
If it were my company, I'd want to know about it. And I'd be willing to pay for what to them, should be highly valuable information.
Keep healing, and we'll try our best to behave.