My experience while out in the woods de-limbing felled trees with my KDSH for firewood was pretty much exactly what those two pictures show. The big difference is I was not pulling on my hawk with my hand, nor was I aware that in the midst of my labors bumping into and stepping over logs, half of the very sharp edge was sticking out like the first quoted shot above. The head did not come completely out like the second shot. Let's just say if I had been moving my hand a little faster while feeling for the strap I would have required stitches and maybe had a useless hand for a little while. It was a very alarming close call. Once I get the pictures up, I will show the difference between safe design and potential harm when you least need it, though it is not much different from your shots already up. The difference for me is I was wearing mine facing backwards on the same side so my left index finger would have been the first victim, or my wrist/forearm if I had bumped into it. Please be careful is all I am saying.

Both the Busse shop and Eric at Mashed Cat are aware of the issue after I sent both companies pics of the design flaw. Eric is willing to stand behind his product if it is an issue. This may just be unique to my two sheaths, but your pictures indicated otherwise and I just don't want to see anyone get hurt where saying something could avoid it.