I agree. And a lot of this I think comes from this sort of physical therapy for beginners. I.E. beginners may get injured from lower reps so should have a foundation in that. There is SOME logic in that it is quite possible for someones strength to outstrip his tendon and ligament strength in the first months of training. BUT, as I've said before, this would fall under improper programing:

I.E. chances are if you try to hoist enough weight for low reps to tear something....you'll probably also fail on the lift in the first place or you didn't take time to learn proper form...any number of things.

Another point is that thinking that a new lifter is going to start out even being capable of hoisting enough weight to cause a significant injury shows a misunderstanding of what it means to be a beginner. Simply put, in the beginning you just aren't capable of generating that kind of intensity because of neural immaturity. The fact is most of the catastophic injuries happen with more advanced lifters.

In other words, while you need to be CAREFUL, injuries will most likely come from user error and not rep range. Muscle does help protect someone from injury, btw, but that would fall into the realm of actual contractile protein which you get more of from the lower rep range anyway. But people with the high rep high volume 10 exercise per muscle group mentality are more likely to suffer chronic overuse injuries and someone having a acute injury on a 5x5 (provide they don't run the 5x5 stupid).

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.