Bailing out on squats in a pin rack
My gym has a peg squat rack like this:
(not enough posts to submit urls yet so you'll need to cobble this link to the image together) samimatilainen.com slash wp-content slash uploads slash 2010 slash 10 slash legend-3138-squat-rack dot jpg -- or google legend-3138-squat-rack
Been doing the 5x5 for awhile and I'm reaching a spot where I'm close to struggling to complete a round of squats, and being 6'4" that safety bar area in the front of the rack is just too damn short even bent over hard to get the bar onto, I've tried it with an empty bar and I come no where near it when I go A2G on my squats. So that's got me thinking, if I can't rep the squat weight how the hell do I bail out in this setup?
The other dynamic here is that due to some long standing shoulder issues I'm still pretty wide on my squat grip, to the point where it takes me till my 5th set to get my hands/pinky finger an inch or 2 away from the vertical bars on the rack when I set my grip on the bar. In a bail out situation I'd be worried that throwing myself forward towards the pins on the vertical part of the rack would be really high risk for smashing a hand. No spotters either, gym is usually pretty quiet at the hours I'm in there. Only one rack in the place at the moment, offered to buy them a cage and get some comp on my membership but no go so far
Suggestions on safety in this situation on a bail out?