I've known people to lose 2 or 3 fingers like you were talking about earlier. For the life of me I couldn't convince myself to keep going after I hit the blade the first time... I know one guy claimed he was using a 12 inch commercial table saw with a very coarse ripping blade and he said his fingers just fit into the gullets. I wrestled with him in high school and he wasn't fast enough to get his fingers to fit in the gullets... But some of the stories are amusing when they tell them.
----- Original Message ----- From: Dale Leavens To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 8:33 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Table saw injury report. I live in a small town with a population of just over 5,000. I attend at least two hand injuries per year from saw cuts. There are several more less significant injuries which never make it to my Department. Not all are table saws of course, hand circular saws do a remarkable amount of damage to people as well. If I was Han Solo I'd probably pet my wookie ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Rossi To: Blind Handyman List Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 10:00 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Table saw injury report. Fine Woodworking just posted the abstract to a report about table saw injuries requiring emergency room treatment. This was for only non-work related injuries. There are over 30,000 table saw related injuries a year in the United States. The large majority of those injuries come from contacting the saw blade and involve the fingers and thumb. Pretty scarry when you think about it. Keep your head about you whenever you turn that thing on. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: d...@andrew.cmu.edu Tel: (412) 268-9081 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
