For @GeorgeK The Woodworker
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On Wednesday, the FTC issued an advisory to the Trump administration to scrap a proposed rule by the Consumer Product Safety Commission to force saw manufacturers to use an automated finger-detection tool that would stop table saws from operating when a user’s hands or limbs were at risk of being sliced off.
According to Reuters, the CPSC estimated the tool would prevent nearly 50,000 table saw injuries a year. But since it was first proposed in 2023, the rule has put consumer safety advocates at odds with manufacturers that worried that the rule would privilege one company, SawStop, which owns the patent to the finger protection technology.
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