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Yes, please don't wear gloves when working around (most) power tools.

My mom was wearing gloves when using the table saw one day. She nicked a finger in the blade and it caught on the fabric and pulled her hand in, mangling her fingers pretty badly. Plastic surgeon did a pretty good job reassembling her, but one finger (the one that ended up with a severed tendon) still can't bend properly.



Table saws generally come with whole slew of "just please fucking don't"[1]. My grand-grandpa lost a part of the thumb to it, which is still probably low price for a man working in construction most of his life in now-post-communist country where OSHA-equivalent didn't exist.

Like, preferably don't even use hands at all to push it in the first place

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN_w0OD6oIs


There's a solution - SawStop. Works fine, industry reaction to it was a long, sad tale.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SawStop




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