Safety guards are a must, no if's an's and buts! 2 stories, working on the inside of a new home, the superintendent ( Flunky ) of the job ask to barrow my circular saw, I give it to him with a working safety guard but still told him to be careful, about 20 minutes later I here him screaming bloody murder, I run out of the house and found him laying up on the shed porch roof holding his knee, blood everywhere,
He had attempt to cut off a corner board that was jam to far down on the shingles, the inspector caught this, and ask that this be corrected ,code is that all wood to be 1" up from any water valley, the flunky had took it upon hims self to pin back the safety on my saw and tried jam cutting the corner this is when the saw kicked back cutting his knee to the bone and the saw road up his thigh to the groin area,
he told me several weeks later he had wished he had got someone else to cut that corner board off,....... I told him he would have been OK had he not have pin back the safety on my saw,
was a young man in his 20's
Story #2- I was working inside the garage of a new home casing in the garage doors, the framer was still inside doing punch-out, deadwood etc, the builder came in with some 2x2 in his hand and picked up the framers saw and cut the 2x2 off he then sit the saw back on the floor while blade still spinning,
Note: with the safety guard working correctly you can sit it down while blade is spinning...... well anyway the safety was pinned back and when he set the saw down it done a circle right across the builders toes cutting 2 of them most the way off, and he was wearing leather boots,....
I have many many more stories like this and they all have to do with either no safety guards or the guards not working properly,
so you see! these safety guards are on there for a reason, to keep our body parts in tack with our body,
