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That surgeon had been operating a table saw when his glove caught the saw blade and pulled in his hand.
Never wear gloves when working with rotating cutting heads (saws, routers, even drills). The blade will grab the glove and pull your hand in as the fabric wraps around it. The glove also gives you a false sense of safety, and blocks your sense of touch. A tiny catch of the glove might destroy your hand, where if your hand was bare you might’ve pulled it away with only a cut.
You’re much safer with your hands bare and being very aware of where your fingers are, especially around a table saw.
That’s bullshit. They need to expire Sawstop’s patents and give other manufacturers a couple years to duplicate that tech if they are going to require all table saws to include what is currently proprietary technology.
They literally agreed to open the patent if the safety rule goes into effect.
However, one key patent — the “840” patent — is not set to expire until 2033. To stave off potential competitors, it describes the AIM technology very broadly. In a surprise move at February’s CPSC hearing, TTS Tooltechnic Systems North America CEO Matt Howard announced that the company would “dedicate the 840 patent to the public” if a new safety standard were adopted. Howard says that this would free up rivals to pursue their own safety devices or simply copy SawStop’s. At the hearing, he challenged them “to get in the game.”
Nice. That’s halfway there!
We dont need the second half.
The vendor said they can copy the mechanism outright. If the “name brands” start prototyping now, they should be able to have working models ready to go when the change is made.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Consumer Product Safety Commission says that when a person is hospitalized, the societal cost per table saw injury exceeds $500,000 when you also factor in loss of income and pain and suffering.
Marketed under the name SawStop, it was designed to stop and retract the spinning blade within a few milliseconds of making contact with flesh — fast enough to turn a potentially life-changing injury into little more than a scratch.
“We’ve got a [proposed] rule that is designed to prevent tens of thousands of medically treated table saw injuries per year,” says CPSC Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. “That’s something that I very much support.”
SawStop’s competitors are represented by the Power Tool Institute, the trade group that includes big power-tool makers such as Bosch, DeWalt and Milwaukee, as well as lesser-known brands.
In a surprise move at February’s CPSC hearing, TTS Tooltechnic Systems North America CEO Matt Howard announced that the company would “dedicate the 840 patent to the public” if a new safety standard were adopted.
But according to the CPSC, it’s common for table saw users to “remove modular blade guards,” often for reasons of “improved visibility” — in other words, because they can’t easily see the cut they are trying to make.
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