On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:11:49 -0500, Bill in Detroit
wrote:

Tom Watson wrote:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=aaomG4adRvHY

Regards,

Tom Watson

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http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1/
Interesting. 55,000 injuries (reported) per year yet the CPSC is clearly
playing regulatory politics.

I read "an estimated" not reported. I discounted the article and
stopped reading at that point. Did I not read far enough?

Estimated? By whom?

Frank
That would change in an afternoon if the head of that organization could
be coaxed into standing on the infeed side of a table saw for a couple
of hours.

Even once the regulatory wheels begin to turn it will take YEARS before
saw manufacturers would have to comply with tighter standards. Research.
Public debate. Draft Standards. Phase-In. Then, eventually, POSSIBLE
enforcement.

Ten years of toe dragging will add up to another half-million or so
(reported) injuries. And who knows how many unreported ones where the
victim couldn't afford medical care so no record was ever made of the
injury.

And that woman doesn't even want to begin the toe-dragging part?

Bill