"Father Haskell" wrote

In 40 years, I've seen lots of kickback, but never anyone getting
bit. Not sticking your fingers into the blade is the best protection
against having to relearn how to pick your nose.

In my 18 years or so of teaching, I have only had one student have a serious
accident. One too many, though. (knocking on wood, here)

He was using a table saw to ease the corners of a piece he was going to turn
on a lathe. He was one of my best students, so I was not watching him like
a hawk. He made a couple very bad decisions that I though that he should
know better, the wood kicked back, and he jumped and placed his hands on the
table to catch himself. Problem is, he chose the one place on the table
that had a two finger remover blade spinning. They put most of one finger
back on, but he lost about half of one finger.

Now, the guard is on, if it is possible to use while making a cut. If it is
not, an alternate guarding system is set up, or they don't use the saw.
Period.
--
Jim in NC