Shot through the heart.....err...Pants.....

Re: Shot through the heart.....err...Pants.....

Mark Hennebury

Screw a block of MDF on your fence and raise it up 1/4" from the table, you won't get shot anymore.

Re: Shot through the heart.....err...Pants.....

Bill Howatt

There have been people speared and even killed by with cut-offs shooting back. The case of the fatality I believe was a teacher doing a demo when it happened.

Can't be too careful.

Bill

Re: Shot through the heart.....err...Pants.....

Hank Knight

There was an article a couple of years ago about a guy in an industrial setting who had a kickback on a tablesaw. The offcut hit him in the groin area and severed his femoral artery. He sat down, leaned against a steel column behind the saw and bled to death before anyone found him.

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Clint Searl

You can just put the block of MDF in your skivvies.

Re: Shot through the heart.....err...Pants.....

Paul Blackwell

In 60 some years of woodworking, I have only had one accident. I was ripping a piece of cherry about 3/4 x3/4 18 inches long, and I always make it a point to push the piece well beyond the saw blade. Suddenly, the piece came rocketing back and hit me in the abdomen so hard it almost knocked me down. Fortunately I was wearing my leather shop apron. I looked and instantly I had a bruise the size of a softball. I firmly believe that it would have penetrated me had I not been wearing the apron. To this day I don't know what caused the kickback, but it made me even more careful than I was before. I never work in the shop without the leather apron.