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Get the Most Out of Your Table Saw With Some of These Top Accessories

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Woodworking Network

Bosch REAXX Jobsite Table Saw Has Flesh-sense Safety Stop

Mt. Prospect, Ill. – Safety comes first on any construction jobsite, especially regarding a table saw where a momentary lack of focus could have permanent consequences. Bosch, the construction ...
NPR

Regulators Consider Safety Brakes For Table Saws

Federal regulators are moving closer to implementing new safety standards for table saws. Every year, several thousand Americans cut off their fingers using the tools. Engineers at the Consumer ...
The New York Times

How Much Would You Pay to Make Sure You Never Sawed Off a Finger?

Ben Blatt is a reporter for The Upshot and an amateur woodworker who once received stitches for a band saw injury. What’s it worth to you to minimize the risk of cutting off a finger? $300? $600?
Alaska Public Media

After years of trying, the U.S. government may finally mandate safer table saws

Tom Noffsinger stands in his garage workshop, where he uses a SawStop table saw for woodworking at his home in Raleigh, North Carolina. About 20 years ago, Noffsinger had a table saw accident and ...
Inc

FTC Says a Table Saw Safety Rule Must Be Scrapped. Here’s Why

On Wednesday, the FTC issued an advisory to the Trump administration to scrap a proposed rule by the Consumer Product Safety Commission to force saw manufacturers to use an automated finger-detection ...
Engineering News-Record

Safety Commission Drops Planned Consumer Table Saw Rule

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 ...
Woodworking Network

Legislators introduce bill to postpone saw safety rule

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A bill has been introduced in Congress that would prevent a proposed Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) rule on saw safety claiming the rule would lead to a monopoly on table ...
NPR

If Table Saws Can Be Safer, Why Aren't They?

This week some of the nation's biggest power tool companies sent their executives to Washington. They came to argue against tougher safety mandates for so-called table saws, the popular power tools ...
Los Angeles Times

California’s table-saw safety bill is facing a fight

SACRAMENTO — Stephen Gass is either a savior of fingers or a greedy monopolist, depending on who’s describing a controversial bill making its way through the California Legislature. The Oregon ...
LAist

After years of trying, the U.S. government may finally mandate safer table saws

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