Circular saw accident

[munruben]

Nasty accident with a circular saw. Just another warning to all of us who get a bit over confident. http://www.smh.com.au/news/health/sl...492804084.html News clip link courtesy of Wheelinround.

[mic-d]

That's why there are two grip points on the saw. If he had both hands on the saw and a good grip this would not have happened. Eye/ear/lung protection, two hands on the saw and don't stand behind the saw where it might kickback into you, is that so hard to remember
Next thing, overzealous safety standards will require saws to have dual activation points like I've seen on hedge trimmers so both hands must be on the saw to start it, and that will just be a pain to those of us who say "do as we say not as we do"!
Cheers
Michael

[wheelinround]

Thanks John was heading outside to shed within 5 min's dark as blazes and its about to hit Sydney west so back inside

[Waldo]

Insert : painfulsmilielikeyou'vejustbeenkickedintheclackers:

[specialist]

Damn, it's enough to make your eyes water. A similar thing has happened to a couple of blokes in this town in the not too distant past.

Robert

[malb]

Last year a house in our street was sold for development, and a mutual friend of the developer and the original owner is currently living in the house while the units are being built behind.

About a month ago, the original owner passed away, and I went to tell the mutual friend/tennant, who took me down the back to tell the developer. While down there, I noted someone working for the framing contractor get a couple of pieces of pine for wall plates, mark them to length and cut them with a 230mm circ saw using his leg as the support.

Don't want to be around when something goes wrong with that technique, apart from the obvious problem about the leg, one hand is holding the two plates together on his leg, so there is only one hand available for controlling the saw.

[Groggy]

Didn't anyone notice the article said he was cutting FIREWOOD with a CIRCULAR SAW?

Twit.

[Harry72]

Yep exactly Groggy... and he tried to pick up his fingers off the saw, so was it a table saw he was using?

[wheelinround]

was he using a Sawstop and it failed sorry Brendon

Worst of all he's had to travel the whole state to have his fingers sewn back on that in itself is a sad state of affairs anywhere in this country.

Groggy what happens to jobs that don't go as planned they end up as firewood don't they

[rrich]

mark them to length and cut them with a 230mm circ saw using his leg as the support.

During a the process of adding a room to our home, I watched a framing carpenter standing on the top of a framed wall ripping a bit of timber 19mm by 150mm into a 19mm by 100mm piece. The rip was at least 2400mm long.

Not a big deal except that on his leg was resting the 100mm piece, his hand was pulling the timber through a circular saw being held by his other hand. I actually turned away because I couldn't watch.

[Gra]

While down there, I noted someone working for the framing contractor get a couple of pieces of pine for wall plates, mark them to length and cut them with a 230mm circ saw using his leg as the support.

My old man almost cut off his leg with a circular saw. Was cutting a peice of wood, and resting it on his leg. wood grabbed, saw jumped. off to the hospital he went.

Still does dumb stuff, but I am learning him slowly

[rod1949]

Now what about from the Saw's perspective! It must be worried sick as to what the operator tried to do to it, the risk of being thrown against the wall or dropped on the floor and being hurt. And then there's have some one elses blood all over it, god knows what infections it could catch

[Ch4iS]

Im confused as to how this happened?

He was holding the wood with one hand and cutting with the other, the wood grabbed pulling his hand also?


Nasty to think about.

[sumu]

Nasty.

My darling wife is a RN, and works sometimes at the ER of Central Hospital of Tampere. Especially springtime is busy time there when all the farmers and home renovators are starting to "fixing things".

They call it there as "repla", when they join the lost limbs and sets of fingers back to the poor renovator. My wife said that "finger joint" (literally in finnish: "sormiliitos") is a bit worn-off joke in that facility.

According to my wife, the nastiest accidents with powered hand tools have happened when guys have changed the blades and bits of handheld circular saws and power routers, holding the tool on their lap, machine still plugged in. Collets may be jammed a little, and they have to use force to turn the chuck keys, and while doing that they manage to start the damn machine while hugging it tightly.

Kippis,

sumu

[Caliban]

Im confused as to how this happened?

He lives in Kempsey, nuff said.