A carpenter using a table saw recently without numerous safety and hazard abatement features, such as a blade guard, a splitter or a riving knife. The CSPC rules would have required blade-sensing ...

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 ...

If you ask around a wood shop, most people will agree that the table saw is the most dangerous tool around. There’s ample evidence that this is true. In 2015, over 30,000 ER visits happened because of ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A bill has been introduced in Congress that would prevent a proposed Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) rule on saw safety claiming the rule would lead to a monopoly on table ...

Power tool manufacturer SawStop has pledged to make its U.S. Patent 9,724,840 publicly available upon the effective date of a new rule mandating safety technology on all table saws. According to a ...

Apparently ending decades of efforts to require SawStop-style flesh-sensing safety devices on table saws, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission quietly dropped a proposed rule that had ...

One day about 20 years ago, Tom Noffsinger experienced every woodworker's worst nightmare: One final cut on his table saw before knocking off for the day turned into a trip to the emergency room. It ...

• The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has withdrawn multiple proposed safety rules, including standards targeting table saw injuries, hazardous off-highway vehicles, and toxic aerosol dusters.

For woodworkers, the table saw stands as both a revered tool and a potential danger. One saw, SawStop, uses an innovative technology to prevent the saw from cutting more than wood. The feds are now ...

The main difference between miter saws and table saws is the kinds of cuts they make. DIYers use miter saws and table saws to ...

The regulator says a safety rule meant to prevent tens of thousands of finger amputations a year would hand one company too much power. On Wednesday, the FTC issued an advisory to the Trump ...