E06: Safer Saws- brobeanfarms

1. Manufacturers
2. Customers
3. Consumer Safety Advocates
4. Injured Plaintiffs
5. Personal Injury Lawyers
6. News Reporters
7. Power Tool Product Reviewers
8. Amputees

1a. “Our saws, besides being the highest quality and best featured saws in their market segments, feature the ability to detect contact with skin and stop the blade in less than 5 milliseconds.”
1b. The manufacturer is claiming that their saw is without an unreasonable doubt the best saw on the market, and now with the feature to detect contact on the skin, it has revolutionized this field.
1c. The claim is opinionated along with factual. The option is that their saws are the best on the market and the fact is the technology to detect contact on the skin.
1d. Due to the opinion, the manufacturer is obviously going to promote their saw. The technology however is factual and very beneficial. The manufacturer wants everyone who owns power saws to own this new technology as well.

2a. “To hold Bosch liable for not making a bad business decision that would cost them lots of money seems a bit unreasonable if not ludicrous.”
2b. Customers believe that manufacturers would lose a great amount of money for buying this technology. The amount of money spent would not be worth it when it comes to sales.
2c. This type of claim is 100% opinionated and could be debated as factual as well. The opinion is the loss of money but that could also be factual because the technology is expensive and the manufacturer already profits greatly on sales.
2d. This claim is accurate based on the opinion and fact because The technology is very costly.

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4a. “Approximately 40,000 Americans go to hospital emergency rooms every year with injuries sustained while operating table saws. About 4,000 of those injuries – or more than 10 every day – are amputations.”
4b. The quote from the injured plaintiff is true and factual. It goes in depth on how many individuals are injured due to table saws and implies that changes must be made.
4c. This is a factual claim because it gives statistics on the injuries caused by table saws annually.
4d. These claims are accurate, due to the statistics. It gives a visual on the problem with table saws and the injuries that it causes. Based on these statistics, injuries would most likely greatly decrease with the implication of the new technology.

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