I've heard stories. Yikes.

Once on a large job in Palo Alto we had the main job table saw on the front porch. It had an unusually low ceiling for some reason, about 7 feet. One day one of the subs was using it and he cut the hell out of his hand - I never learned what the injury was but we all knew about it. There was a trail of blood spatters on the ceiling in the same plane as the blade (?!). Not a few spatters either. Some of my fellow employees with the General were actually complaining that they spirited him out of there in a hurry so that we, the General C., didn't know how bad the injury was, like they were trying to cover it up.

I said that it looked to me like it was serious and of course the first instinct would be to get the hell on the road to a hospital while stopping the bleeding on the way.

My old man was a long time carpenter/general (working) and he had all ten on his death bed. One of the few safety tips he gave me was to keep the table saw blade only high enough to protrude slightly above the wood you were cutting. That way if you did screw up it would likely only be a small flesh wound.

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