Todd the wood junkie wrote:
tom wrote:
How big is/was your workpiece, and the cut-off? Sounds like something
got kicked up into the blade, but I've never had such a catastrophic
result. Glad you're okay!

The workpiece was approx a 1" x 2" x 24" leg to a stand. I held the
piece on the right side of the saw and came in from the left with the
blade. The cutoff was less than a half inch.

My guess is that the cutoff got swept up into the guard and blade
housing. I've had that happen with small pieces but it never mangled
the saw, just made a godawful racket.

R