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Re: New Study Discusses Tablesaw Injuries

In the 40 or so years that I have been actively woodworking the only causes of injury to myself have been the result of either taking shortcuts or not paying attention.

This is not to say that the machinery manufacturers can't do better. It would certainly be better for their image to look to Europe or within themselves to design and provide integral safety improvements such as riving knives and easily accessible cutoff switches and design them to be retrofitted to existing equipment before it became legally mandated.

In the end, safety in the shop is a personal responsibility that we all need to take seriously. Machinery manufacturers can only be influenced by legal mandates and loss of sales.

Paul Hummel

posted: 5:33 pm on February 25th