All Replies on TS injuries - please take this 5 second survey

1

-- Jeff, Charleston SC

3 nicks, 1 mine, 2 my brother.
I know many others with injuries on the RAS, BS, DP, lathe, jointer, skilsaw, chain saws, router and utility knives and one stupid cub scout who cut his finger on the scroll saw. Accidents happen but mostly due to not paying attention or being over tired or stressed. All tools are inharently dangerious even hand tools… How many times have you stabed yourself with a screwdriver then said danm that was stupid. I bet screwdrivers are involved in more accidents than TS.

MIKE

-- See pictures on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/44216106@N07/ And visit my Facebook page - facebook.com/MTEnterprises

1

-- honing my craft one mistake at a time.

2, not me.

Sounds like a ‘Dado’ to me ShopTinker, not a split. :)
Salty, it seems simple. Did they contact the blade? AND Did they get injured?

-- Backer boards, stop blocks, build oversized, and never buy a hand plane--

1

-- I still have all my fingers

Maybe 6.

-- "The way to make a small fortune in woodworking- start with a large one"

0

0

-- gagewestern

0

-- Adam, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

1
A shop teacher decades ago, demonstrating how to not put through a piece of wood! Cut off a little finger.

-- Paul, Tennessee, http://www.tsunamiguitars.com

0

2

0

-- Rowdy in Kechi, Kansas

4

0

-- Tim, Missouri ....Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the heck happened

1

0

-- Ken, Tallahassee,FL

0

Still 0!

0

But a neighbor of a friend of my Dad’s cut his entire hand off, and a guy I work with lost part of a finger from a bandsaw.

0

-- Don't anthropomorphize your handplanes. They hate it when you do that. -- OldTools Archive

0

1 – A kid is shop in school put a groove in the middle of his hand.

Knock on Wood !!!!

-- Pat - Worker of Wood, Collector of Tools, Father of one

3

-- "Measure twice, cut once, count fingers"

1

-- Paul, Clinton, NC

1 not sure why your gathering but ill play in it was me if you want to see it look at my cutting board (ironic a cutting board) but you can see the aftermath.

0

No one I know uses metrics so every one is safe

-- When the moderator chooses sides, his site sucks.

0

-- "Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; guard it well, for it is your life" Solomon

Fortunately, 0. Hate the dang things, too risky.

0

-- "there aren’t many hand tools as awe-inspiring as the #8 jointer. I mean, it just reeks of cast iron heft and hubris" - Smitty

2

-- Anforte NJ

0

-- My dad and I built a 65 chev pick up.I killed trannys in that thing for some reason-Hog

1

-- My Boss was a carpenter

OK now that every one’s voted can we start bitching about Saw Stop?

-- When the moderator chooses sides, his site sucks.

1

yes it was me. Luckily just a cut on the tip, down to the bone.

-- Paul, North Dakota, USAF Ret.

2

I am a retired shop teacher. Who knows how many kids I observed in 34 years! I had one kid the first year that decided to use the table saw without permission, no guard, no fence, kicked back and cracked his ribs but kickbacks do not count in the survey.

No other student of mine injured on the table saw.

Team taught with another teacher for 11 years. He had two students cut on the table saw. So my answer is 2.

-- Bill - Mesquite, TX --- "Everything with a power cord eventually winds up in the trash.” John Sarge , timber framer and blacksmith instructor at Tillers International school

I think around 10 – but I was asking about injuries so I found out a few, most didn’t loose the finger but were injuries.
I sliced the tip of my finger on a table saw, my grandfather lost the top half of 4 fingers, an old shop teacher lost part of a finger a friend of my dad lost a part of a thumb. the rest were “just” cuts.

-- ----- www.KNWoodworking.com ----- --

0

-- Angular error is proportionate to the distance run

0

-- HorizontalMike -- "Woodpeckers understand..."

7

-- Doug - As my Dad taught me, you're not a cabinet maker until you can hide your mistakes.

0

-- WOOD/DON (...one has the right to ones opinion but not the right to ones own facts...)

1

2

My dad when in his late 80s.

-- Michael :-{| Diapers and politicians both need to be changed often; and for the same reason.

0

-- Shameless - Winner of two Stumpy Nubs Awards

0

1
Sorry to say, it was me! 13 stitches later my thumb is 1/4” narrower.

-- Doug, Bakersfield, CA - I measured twice, cut it twice, and it is still too short!

0

-- Ken, USAF MSgt, Ret.

4
He cut off all four fingers on one hand, luckily they were reattached with 90% mobility.

-- http://www.heartofsackville.ca/

0

3