Originally Posted by
John Stankus
My dad tells me of when the circular saws were starting to become available to carpenters, that there were a lot of injuries. This was due to the fact that with handsaws they used to brace the board across their leg and cut the piece to size. Many carpenters followed the same work process and cut into their legs with the circular saw.
John
THEY STILL DO THAT!!! I have a friend who's an emergency room nurse (and a woodworker). She gets guys in the ER who have cut across their thigh. She always asks them what they were doing and whether they had tied the guard back. Most of them were cutting across their leg and they had the guard tied back.
Mike
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