On April 25, 2025, a person was cutting wood on a table saw on campus. After several cuts, they shut off the table saw, but while the blade was still spinning, they attempted to remove a piece of wood ...

Ben Blatt is a reporter for The Upshot and an amateur woodworker who once received stitches for a band saw injury. What’s it worth to you to minimize the risk of cutting off a finger? $300? $600?

One day about 20 years ago, Tom Noffsinger experienced every woodworker's worst nightmare: One final cut on his table saw before knocking off for the day turned into a trip to the emergency room. It ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. One look at a table saw, and it's not hard to understand why some may be apprehensive when working with it. Simply put, while many power tools ...

For even the most creative home woodworkers, power tools can be intimidating. Not only are they sometimes complicated to use, but they can also cause great harm if not used properly. Table saws ...

A carpenter using a table saw recently without numerous safety and hazard abatement features, such as a blade guard, a splitter or a riving knife. The CSPC rules would have required blade-sensing ...

On Wednesday, the FTC issued an advisory to the Trump administration to scrap a proposed rule by the Consumer Product Safety Commission to force saw manufacturers to use an automated finger-detection ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A bill has been introduced in Congress that would prevent a proposed Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) rule on saw safety claiming the rule would lead to a monopoly on table ...

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