mukifli

It always makes me sad when I hear of someone hurting themselves on a tool. However the usual response to the accident always makes me sadder. Whatever institution involved "cracks down" on safty to the point that no one is able to enjoy making something anymore. I cut my thumb off while I was going to college in my own shop. As soon as the facilty and the shop manager caught wind of my accident everyone freeked out about shop safty to the point that they cut shop hours and put so many requirements on the the shop that you couldn't do anything in there. I hurt myself on my own freeking machines in my own shop! I had all safty devices in place, I just hit a very bad spot in the wood. It was an accident! They do happen. We don't need to make yet another cumbersum tablesaw part or make a new company to design a safer tool. We don't need to outlaw lathes because one person had an accident. And there is no need to have to raise insurance rates. If this kind of response to accidents continues we're going to worry ourselve out of being able to do the things we most love to do because "it too dangerous." Bad things happen, take them into your personal safty invantory and move on. My condolances go out the this girl and her family. I hope they honor her by remembering what she loved to do and not what accident took her.