How to deal with sharp door latch corners?

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There is a doorway that sometimes people walk through and get scratched on their arms by the latch on the door and occasionally it even draws blood. I think it's because the two external corners of the door latch are too sharp.
How can I make the door latch safer? Is it OK to use a Dremel rotary tool to round out or flatten the corners a bit?

Michael Karas · Answer

A Dremel may be able to work but it is also possible to way overdo the grinding that a high speed tool like this can do.
If all you want to do is to break sharp corners all you need is a low cost hand file. File with a cutting surface called a mill file will give you nice smooth cuts of the sharp edges.
Here is a typical mill cut file.

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