E06 Safer Saws-31Savage

1A. Consumer Safety Advocates

Consumer Product Safety Commission is determined to be part of the solution to reduce the serious number of preventable table saw injuries that occur each year.

1B. The sentence claims the C.P.S.C is determined to be apart of the solution of preventing table saw injuries that occur each year.

1C. This claim is a opinionated claim.

1D. This claim depicts the C.P.S.C.’s position on the table saw injury problem. Before this claim was made another claim stated that the C.P.S.C had a unanimous vote to approve an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) on table saw blade contact injuries.

2A. Customer

But as well as the technology works, the major tool companies have failed to put this kind of device on any of their table saws — even eight years after Gass offered to license it to them.

2B. This sentence claims that tool companies did not put the Saw Stop technology in their saws even though it works.

2C. This claim is a factual claim.

2D. This claim shows that even though Gass invented a technology that could reduce table saw injuries he hasn’t convinced major tool companies they need his technology. There are three factual claims in this one sentence.

3A. Manufacturers

A PTI JV has developed a flesh sensing technology that reacts faster, has a lower replacement cost of firing, and mitigates injury to a greater degree when compared to the SawStop technology.

3B. This sentence has three claims. These three claims challenge’s three aspects of Gass’s technology.

3C. This is a proposal claim.

3D. This claim tries to show they have created a faster reacting, cheaper, and safer technology than Gass. This challenge could to Gass’s technology could help the manufacturers.

4A. Injured Plaintiffs

“I think the manufacturers should think less about cost, but more about people who are using the saws.”

4B. This sentence claims that manufacturers should worry about the people who are injured by their table saws rather than the cost of the saws.

4C. This is a opinionated claim.

4D. This claim give’s prospective from a person injured by a saw without Saw Stop, who want’s companies to introduce Saw Stop to their table saws. Companies are worrying more about money and less about safety.

5A. Industry Spokesman

“SawStop is currently available in the marketplace to any consumer who chooses to purchase it”

5B. This sentence claims that SawStop is available on the market to any consumer who wants to buy it.

5C. This is a factual claim.

5D. This claim states that SawStop technology is available to people. This claim came from a spokesman for a tool company that was defending themselves against Gass’s request for SawStop to be mandatory for all table saws.

6A. Steve Gass himself

I’m gonna put this hot dog on top of the board here, as if it was my thumb misplaced in the path of the blade.

  6B. Steve Gass proposed a demonstration of him showing how the technology actually works.

6C. This is a proposal claim.

6D. Steve Gass spoke about his demonstration. He explained how his technology worked. In a later demonstration he also used his actual finger to show his confidence in his technology.

7A. Personal Injury Lawyers

Now these manufacturers are facing dozens of lawsuits brought forth by people whose injuries could have been prevented had SawStop or similar safety mechanisms been in place. 

7B. This claim states that manufacturers are being sued for not implicating SawStop into their table saws.

7C. This is a factual claim.

7D. This claim indicates a negative impact the manufactures are facing for their rejection of Saw Stop technology. This is ironic because one reason the manufacturers are rejecting the technology is high costs. They are facing lawsuits that will result in costs either way.

8A. Amputees

I lost a finger and half the use of my hand in a table saw accident the cost of a cartridge a new blade is well worth having that safety.

8B. This claim states that the cost of losing a finger greater than the cost of replacing broken pieces on a table saw.

8C. This is a factual claim.

8D. The cost of replacing a broken blade and cartridge is around $160, which is a big difference form the hundred thousands of dollars spent on medical bills after a table saw accident. It maybe speculator to say someone would choose $160 over $100,000 to spend because not many people have 100,000 to spend but it is more then likely to be true.