Power tool manufacturer SawStop has pledged to make its U.S. Patent 9,724,840 publicly available upon the effective date of a new rule mandating safety technology on all table saws. According to a ...

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 ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. One look at a table saw, and it's not hard to understand why some may be apprehensive when working with it. Simply put, while many power tools ...

If you ask around a wood shop, most people will agree that the table saw is the most dangerous tool around. There’s ample evidence that this is true. In 2015, over 30,000 ER visits happened because of ...

One day about 20 years ago, Tom Noffsinger experienced every woodworker's worst nightmare: One final cut on his table saw before knocking off for the day turned into a trip to the emergency room. It ...

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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 ...

A Comparison of Job Site, Contractor/Hybrid, and Cabinet Saws ...

WASHINGTON, DC — The National Consumers League (NCL) said it strongly opposes the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) recommendation to roll back proposed safety standards for table saws. According to ...

The regulator says a safety rule meant to prevent tens of thousands of finger amputations a year would hand one company too much power. On Wednesday, the FTC issued an advisory to the Trump ...