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Comment by legitster

7 months ago

The vast majority of tablesaw users don't lose fingers. How much is avoiding a 1/100000 chance of losing a finger to you? Probably a lot less than $500.

Not just loss, but permanent damage. A good friend jammed his thumb into a table saw, only lost the "fatty" tip, but there's permanent nerve damage, so increased risk of burn or other future injury. So, that was on the mild end of possibly injury, but still cost a small fortune to fix (still required surgery) plus a lifetime of lost function (albeit only a small loss).

> The vast majority of tablesaw users don't lose fingers.

Practically every single person I know who does "woodworking" has some finger injury from a saw--generally the table saw. It's north of 75%.