Comment by fatbird
7 months ago
Intuitively, the table saw seems more dangerous to me (and I'm typing this with a finger with three pins in it from a table saw injury) because you're manipulating the circular saw directly, and thus more consciously. With a table saw you're manipulating the workpiece into the blade, which is indirectly a threat--in my case, the wood kicked, knocking my finger into the blade.
Would a push stick have helped this situation?
It wasn't the push stick hand (that was actually holding a push stick). It was the hand that was standing in for the feather board I should have had.
Wow, it’s crazy that the wood kicking caused your finger to release its grip on the push stick and get hit by the blade.
What's crazier is that my grip on the push stick never wavered, and still managed to knock my other hand into the blade!