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Comment by DannyBee

7 months ago

See: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/11/01/2023-23...

and https://www.cpsc.gov/cgibin/neissquery/Data/Highlights/2022/...

for general data

For table saw vs band saw, NEISS tries to track table saw vs hand saw vs radial arm saw vs band saw vs powered hack saw vs ...

It's hard, obviously, since it depends on effective coding of at point of injury.

As of about a decade ago (i don't have access to later data):

78% of injuries are table saw

9% band saw

8% miter saw

5% radial arm saw

Circular saws and track saws would be in the "other powered saw" category, and accounts for less than 1% of injuries.

blade contact was 86% of the injuries

While this data is a decade old, the data trends have been relatively stable (even the track saw one)

The simple reason that track saws don't show up meaningfully is there aren't enough sold - these aren't sale-normalized numbers, and the number of track saws vs table saws sold appears to be about 100x difference.

The main trend is that radial arm saw decreases and goes to miter saw and table saw.

This happens naturally since there are not a lot of sales of radial arm saws anymore. (But also shows you how dangerous RAS are - despite them not really being sold, they are highly overrepresented in percent injuries)

Thank you! This matches what I’ve heard, and what I’d expect just from the general geometry of things