On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:12:11 +0000, Doug Miller wrote:

I likewise consider myself in the "extremely careful" camp, but made one
mistake a few years ago, resulting in a trip to the ER for what the doc
called a "remarkably superficial" injury. Even so, it was quite painful,
I'm now missing a *very* small portion of the tip of my left thumb, and
there's a little spot that's permanently numb.

Sounds like my left thumb :-). Not only that, I split a fingernail down
the middle on my right hand about a year later. Lucky both times.

Forty years with no table saw injuries, then two in a year. None since,
but I've developed a better understanding of my fallibility :-).

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Intelligence is an experiment that failed - G. B. Shaw