Davo304

Well, they say in a court of law the jury is supposed to be a "jury of your peers"...in other words, of similar background and experience as the defendent. Evidently this jury met that criteria...cause they were as equally stupid as Mr. Osorio!

I would like to know if there was even one wood worker sitting in on that jury? I seriously doubt it. And there lies the shame of it all...you got moron lawyers, judges, and juries ruling on cases that they haven't a clue as to what is actually right or wrong cause they have no real working knowledge/ experience concerning the subject they are debating....tablesaw safety.

This lawsuit should have never come to trial. The fact that it reached court attests to the fact that the judge has no woodworking knowledge...otherwise this case would have been thrown out. The jury surely had no knowledge...the proof is in their statement that Mr. Osorio was only 35% responsible.....I say bulsh*t to that too.

In all actuality, the Foreman who "trained" Osorio was really to blame. I'd lay 75% on him and the other 25 on Osorio because it seems obvious that Osorio had no real clue as to what he was doing. As another poster said earlier, he was a neophyte...a rank beginner...just a baby when it came to knowing how to operate that saw. Foreman is to blame....and if Osorio did not have enough mechanical apptitude to recognize the danger signs when the saw is bogging down and such, then he should have never been "broken in" on the tablesaw in the first place. The foreman should have used this guy elsewhere, or not at all.

Davo