Incedent with Table Saw - small injury, maybe...

John Moorhead · 2004-06-28T01:44:52+00:00

Folks -Well I've either had an accident with the saw, or not. Here's whathappened.I was cutting leg blanks out of 8/4 oak with a Freud Rip blade and a low"unisaw" style aux. fence attached to the Bies. My wife was standing on theoutfeed side taking the blanks off of the table as they were cut. She'shelpt before and knows *NOT* to pull on the stock and also to just supportit, not turn it at all as she removes it from the table.Well it all happed so fast (the six scariest words in the shop) anyway, Iwas cutting the last leg blank and there was a narrow offcut on the "waste"side of the blade. I *don't* remember quite what happened next, except thatthe push stick I was using hit the blade and got tossed out of shop. I hadthe presence of mind not to hang onto it - we had just finished the cut andthere was a POP! and zing.... My main concern was that Rose wasn't injured.Well, we were both wearing safety gear, and I ducked as the push stickzinged overhead in a fast high arc. We both counted to ten, literally andfiguratively. I turned the saw off, took a breath, unplugged it, andinspected the blade very carefully. I didn't find any chipped teeth orobvious damage, so all was well.Later on, after about an hour or so, my left pinkie was hurting. I lookedat it and discovered a small cut, less than 1/16 wide, about 1/8 long andjust deep enough to break the skin on the back of the end finger segment.It wasn't even bleeding. I didn't remember cutting myself on anything, andeven though I had gotten a number of splinters over the course of the day,this cut looked too clean. I took a jeweler's loupe and looked at the cutvery carefully. Like I say, I don't remember cutting it on the saw when thepush stick went sailing, and I don't *think* I nicked it on the blade when Iwas turning it carefully over by hand after the fact.So, the situation is both a big relief and also very disturbing. It couldbe that I nicked it on the blade during inspection, or hit it on somethingelse...

Jun 28, 2004 20 Replies

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Jeff Gorman 22 years ago

"Mike Richardson" wrote : : Now see, progress can be a worry - I have (stupidly perhaps) got a couple of : el plastico push sticks near my Unisaur.

Plastic push sticks have been known to shatter and the broken end driven into the palm of the hand.

Jeff G

-- Jeff Gorman, West Yorkshire, UK Email address is username@ISP username is amgron ISP is clara.co.uk Website

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