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Holding a piece of wood and sliding it along a table saw (to cut it) is the canonical method for losing a finger, and you could definitely pick that out with a relatively simple bit of computer vision.


Yes but there's no way for me to not be able to pull my hand back in a quarter of a second for that.


Are you saying you tink you will notice and react?

Because that's what doesn't happen and people lose fingers.


The world has a _lot_ of guys with seven fingers who used to believe they would never be so careless.


I used to have a house that backed up to a county park in Maryland. My shop was out back. I was working carefully at my sawstop (that is what I had back then), standing properly to the left of the kickback path and using a push stick and roller guides. I was just finishing a cut

A hawk decided to throw a dead animal at the window behind me hard enough to shatter it. I was startled and my hand moved enough for my palm to cross the top of the blade.

I would not have lost fingers most likely but it would have been very bad.

To your point accidents are not always foreseeable. Yeah some people work stupidly but plenty of times, It’s just random unexpected events.




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