Doug Miller wrote:
In article . com, "Mort Stevens" wrote:

I was thinking more in terms of what would happen if the kickback would
take your hand into the blade

This seems unlikely, to say the least -- since kickback moves *away* from the
blade.

According to an article I read the classic injury pattern is that the
material being kicked back strikes the operator on the left hand side
of their torso causing them to pivot about their right foot bringing
their right hand forward and across the blade.

If the object hits you square in the chest then maybe you go backwards.
But a glancing blow is going to send you spinning and even if your
center of mass is going backwards your body is still moving forwardsl.