CPSC Chief Wants Improved Table Saw Safety

Popular Woodworking: "It isn't often that a woodworking topic makes national news, but today's USA Today carries just such a story. While not charting a specific course of government action, CPSC Chairman Inez Tenenbaum was quoted by the paper as saying 'The safety of table saws needs to be improved in a way that prevents school children in shop class and woodworkers from suffering these life-altering injuries.' At the core of this discussion is the technology developed for the SawStop by its inventor Stephen Gass, who is mentioned in the article in reference to an estimate that table saw injuries cost the economy $2 billion a year.