kloker

If you were injured by a Radial Arm Saw, it's not the saw that was dangerous, it was you. Lost an eye? Hmmm, inadequate eye protection. Lost a finger? Ah, not paying attention. Cant get one to be accurate? Uh, huh. Learn how to set it up. Got a statistic (or a doctor) that says RASs are more dangerous than table saws (or any other tools)? Well, what would he know? He's a doctor, not a woodworker or a statistician. It's simply not so. It's never the machine anyway. It's the operator. No exceptions, except very rare occasions of catastrophic mechanical failure. Any shop teacher can verify this. It's lack of training, or not following proper safety procedure, or hurrying, or improper setup, or simple carelessness, or distraction, or ... You might as well say the computer made the mistake. Computers don't make mistakes. And machines only do what operators make them do.

The radial arm saw is the most (by way far) versatile and accurate machine that ever graced any woodshop,and that's just a fact. They come in small for small shops and large too, and can do things no other tool can do, and more of them. The question is, what can the operator do?

Hey, use what you feel safe using, but don't blame the machine for injuries. That would just be ignoring reality.