[TheForge] Oh, Jeeze...California Considers Table Saw Law

[Andrew Vida]

Ouch.

In college I worked in various shops including architectural cabinet 
making where they charged obscene sums even in those days.  Other than 
myself, everyone in the shop drank beer all day long, maybe 2 or 3 cans 
in an 8-hour day.  This worried me.

One day, one of the guys decided not to drink at work anymore.  He ran 
his right index finger perfectly up the middle of a 1/32" kerf veneer 
blade on the table saw.  The cut was so perfect all they did was tape 
him up, load him with ABX, and sent him home.  Took a few months of 
physical therapy to get use of his finger back, but when he returned, he 
went right back to drinking.

But yes, imbeciles in "government", in their attempts to chest-pound, 
show who's in charge, and to justify the salaries they collect at the 
ends of guns pointed at the taxpayers never let their ignorance and 
ambition get in the way of protecting the idiots who buy potentially 
dangerous objects and plug them in before learning how to use them.

Honestly, I am surprised those nitwits in the CA legislature have not 
yet caught on to the idea of requiring a "special license" to purchase 
and operate so-called "high performance" motor vehicles.

Oh shit, now I've gone and done it.

On 3/20/2012 10:15 AM, xlch58 at swbell.net wrote:
> On 3/20/2012 8:28 AM, Bruce . wrote:
>> Curiously, this bill doesn't address portable rotary saws -- which are
>> a damned sight more dangerous than table saws.
> Years ago I ran my hand through a table saw with a 3/4" wide dado
> blade.   I had plenty of time to review materials on the subject while
> recuperating ( they rebuilt some of my hand using bits from my foot).
> In any event,  it turns out that the majority of injuries come from
> weekend warriors and hand held circular saws.   Dedicated home craftsman
> are less frequently injured, and they tend to favor the table saw.
> True professionals it turns out, go to the jointer planer for digit
> removal.    The other correlation point that hit home is that the later
> you were working the more likely an injury.   I was up at 2am myself
> finishing a project for a Christmas gift.   I still keep a chunk of my
> knuckle I dug out of the saw as a key fob.
>
> Charles
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