The injured guy was a new employee who was provided a cheap plastic table saw and taught to make free hand cuts without the fence in place. It wasn't totally his fault. Lawyers took it from there.
I'm pretty sure that current regulations require that a machine like that needs to be guarded from bodily ingress during operation.
How?? Not setting the rests/guards properly?
What is a demo video supposed to tell me? And can you quote the appropriate code that says it's OK for that particular machine to be operated unguarded?You assume wrong.
I have to load the ham. Nothing prevented me from falling into it. Do you see any guards three?
Did your workshop offer (mandatory) safety training on the available equipment?That is number one, but pieces will get hot in a hurry and all of a sudden people will loose their grip on something or someone will be grinding the edge of something pointed up at the wheel, the wheel will grab it and in the blink of an eye will flip it down, pulling your hand over the top.
Also gloves. It was hot so I put on gloves. NOOOOOOOoooooooo!!!
Like I said, you look around a die room at all the dangerous machinery and there in the corner will be a pedestal grinder looking like it would never hurt anyone.
I have to admit, chainsaws scare the hell out of me. I own one and I've used it a few times but I have a very healthy level of respect for it.
Eh? We're not talking about surface grinders.Imagine a piece of metal sitting on a flat magnetic table. Huge two ft diameter wheel above it,spinning and grinding it flat.
All it takes is one wrong move and that wheel will toss some serious things. I watched a twenty pound block fly a solid 100 feet across the shop and into a concrete wall after it snagged on the wrong side of a grinder.
pedestal grinders are bad because they have a tendency to ripthngs out of your hands
Wear a thick shirt and pants and good safety glasses (preferably a face shield in addition). Flingy pieces can hurt.I borrowed an angle-grinder from a metalshop before... damn thing had no guard whatsoever!
Holding the machine with my hand 2" from the 10k RPM blade was the most nervous I've ever been with a powertool...
Wear a thick shirt and pants and good safety glasses (preferably a face shield in addition). Flingy pieces can hurt.
EDIT: You shouldn't actually be using it without a guard anyway.
Nothing's more tough than an eyepatch!Yeah... It was for a one-off use at work, borrowed from the neighbors... Saw it and went "wtf?"... Didn't want to look like a pussy so I just sucked it up :whiste::$
Table saws scare me because they show that people will capitalize on anything.
http://bautistaallen.com/product-liability/verdict-upheld-table-case
If I am not mistaken, all future designs of table saws will need to incorporate SawStop...