I was making a furniture video, and I caught a table saw accident on film. It's crazy how fast things happen.
If watch the video from the 1:15 mark to the 1:30 mark you can see what happened without seeing any blood or gore. All you see is him jerking his hand away quickly.Sigh… I chose not to click the video link. Ya, I m a coward about this.
Nope. You need to see it all, or at least up until the finger to blade impact to understand. The early parts show ripping some stock where there is a good three inches on the table. Much more that the depth of cut. Stable workpieces, and the push stick near the fence did its job. The problem arose when the pieces were flipped on their sides with a smaller footprint on the table and a higher height for the piece. Unstable without any fingerboards, etc. Then the blade was sticking a huge amount above the piece of stock. Not necessary, and ultimately dangerous. The width of the cutoff piece was so small that his fingers were close to the blade. Etc., etc., etc.. Several issues at work. I also applaud the OP for posting what had to be a hard to face, humiliating video to share with others just how easily you can be lulled to complacency and have an accident.I started to watch the video, but like Craftsman, chose to stop it before the moment of truth. The first 30 seconds was sufficient to see what happened and why. I ve taken risks in the past - most of us probably have. But if something doesn t feel right when your ready to push that piece through the blade, then I assure you it isn t right and it s time to step back and revisit what you re about to do.
I appreciate your honesty and boldness to post a video that shows what could have been a life-altering event. (even if I stopped short of watching the whole thing). Hopefully we can all learn a valuable lesson.
- Firewood