Ben Blatt is a reporter for The Upshot and an amateur woodworker who once received stitches for a band saw injury. What’s it worth to you to minimize the risk of cutting off a finger? $300? $600?

A longer version of this story appears at FairWarning. Gerald Wheeler caught the hot dog demonstration at the International Woodworking Fair in Atlanta in 2002. A man took an Oscar Meyer wiener and ...

Here’s an attention-grabbing headline from The New York Times: “How Much Would You Pay to Make Sure You Never Sawed Off a Finger?” At first I assumed this was a story about the latest GOP fundraising ...

Table saws can make working with wood a breeze. They can also take fingers off the unwary in the blink of an eye. To help avoid the latter, Bosch has come up with its Reaxx portable jobsite table saw, ...

The risk of injury from a table saw is always present, even for experienced builders and woodworkers, and last year Bosch announced a jobsite table saw with flesh-detecting technology. The Bosch Reaxx ...

One day, Dr. Stephen Gass, an avid recreational woodworker and cabinet maker, was using his table saw when his training as a physicist and years of patent-law practice kicked in. He started to think ...

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 ...

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 ...