Safer Saws – BTB10

1 . Manufacturer  

In the STATEMENT OF CHAIRMAN INEZ M. TENENBAUM Moreover, this agency, under my leadership, is firmly committed to exploring how to prevent these kinds of injuries from continuing to occur.

 

• He is considering making saws safer
• Will look into other possibilities to make saws safe
• He personally will try to make a difference in saws

 

2. Customers

In the article If Table Saws Can Be Safer, Why Aren’t They?, I found out that table saws cause thousands of these really horrible injuries every year. This inventor, a guy named Steve Gass, had actually figured out a way to prevent just about all of those accidents. Over the years, he’s proved that it works, too.

 

• If saw stops can offer extra protection then they should be put on
• Thinks Steve’s idea is brilliant
• If he proved it works then why not put it on

 

3. Industry Spokespeople

“They came back and said, ‘Well, we’ve looked at it, but we’re not interested because safety doesn’t sell,”

 

• They gave this idea a chance but didn’t go through with it
• They believe safety doesn’t always sell
• Safety might be a help but in some cases it won’t help them bring in the money

 

4 Consumer safety Advocates

Based on the injury data obtained in the 2007 and 2008 CPSC special study, our staff’s injury cost model projected that consumers suffered approximately 67,300 medically treated blade contact injuries annually in 2007 and 2008—with an associated injury cost of $2.36 billion dollars in each of those two years.

 

• Here they are claiming that many injuries occur while using table saws. If there was the automatic break this issue would never occur. They are trying to prove here that many do get hurt from table saws, and it’s not a matter of just a little portion who are getting hurt, many of them are. By having the automatic stop all these injuries would have been prevented.
• They are claiming by having this saw stop those 67,000 people who needed to get medical treatment would have been not harmed if there was this saw stop attached.

 

5 Injured plaintiff.

In the article Injured Man Says Bosch Tool Lobbied Feds to Keep Safer Power Saws off the Market, He claims that the inventor of the flesh detection brake offered Bosch a licensing agreement in 2000 during a Power Tool Institute meeting, but Bosch rejected the offer.

 

• Wec claims that if Bosch would have agreed with Flesh detection brake he would have never been injured.  
• If he knew they didn’t agree with they brake company why would he not go to other saw companies to buy a safer saw?

 

6 Personal Injury Lawyer  

in the article Table Saw Injury Lawyer Now,  these manufacturers are facing dozens of lawsuits brought forth by people  whose injuries could have been prevented had Saw Stop or similar safety mechanisms been in place.

 

• Here lawyers are saying that by not having this saw stop blade companies can face major lawsuits, just because they refuse to put in simple equipment they now face lawyers.  
• So is it really worth going to court over putting a sawstop on your equipment if it can prevent injuries.

 

7 Government Officials

In the article Bosch Tools Saw Stop Lawsuit,  What came next is a bit of controversy as Gass attempted to pursue legislation to make his patented technology mandatory through the Consumer Protection Safety Commission, apparently after receiving little support for his proposal to license the technology to manufacturers.

 

• Legislation believed it wasn’t necessary to have this saw stop on it, they saw no need in it.
• Gass has little support on his idea, so few believe but a majority didn’t
• His persuasion and attempt of getting saw stop didn’t work.

 

8. News Reporter                                                                                                                                    In the article If table saws can be safer, why aren’t they, The National Consumers League last month brought in injured woodworkers to meet with lawmakers and regulators. They want to make the Saw Stop safety brake mandatory on all table saws.

 

• Here they want to make it a rule that puts this stop saw on all table saw products.
• They believe by putting in a few extra dollars into a product is worth saving a finger
• What is worth more losing a finger or paying more money for extra protection
• They believe showing some past injuries will help make a law.
• Is the only way they can help pass this law is by bringing in injured saw users to help support there argument.