The regulator says a safety rule meant to prevent tens of thousands of finger amputations a year would hand one company too ...

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 ...

The National Consumers League (NCL) said it strongly opposes the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) recommendation to roll back ...

A proposal to require U.S. table saw manufacturers to use one company's patented finger detection technology should be dropped along with more than 170 other regulations that hamper competition, ...

Table saws are extremely dangerous. The government estimates that injuries from table saws send something like 30,000 people to the emergency room every year. 3,000 of those end in amputations. The ...

Of all the tools in a woodworking shop, the table saw is probably the most dangerous. The Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates the saws send more than 30,000 people to the emergency room each ...

If your wood is showing signs of burning or splintering as it moves through the saw, you probably need to sharpen your blade.

Apparently ending decades of efforts to require SawStop-style flesh-sensing safety devices on table saws, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission quietly dropped a proposed rule that had ...

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 ...

Table saws are extremely dangerous. The government estimates that injuries from table saws send something like 30,000 people to the emergency room... How to save 10,000 fingers Table saws are ...