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Originally Posted by opendoor
Yeah, the lawsuit was the floor installer's insurance company suing Ryobi for not having a Sawstop type technology in its saw. But the thing is the guy doing the cut was breaking about every safety rule in the book when he got injured (no guard, no splitter, trying to freehand a cut on a table saw  , etc.) so it was a pretty stupid lawsuit.
At the same time, this guy was probably trained to work like that and everyone he worked with probably didn't use proper safety equipment either. If users aren't willing to take safety seriously then manufacturers will probably have to start forcing it on them. |
Stupid lawsuit but they get filed all the time.
Company I used to work for had a guy killed in a machine. His wife sued the company and reached a settlement, but it was common knowledge around the place that the guy had to pretty much disable all the safety devices himself to put himself in that situation.
Another guy got his foot caught in a machine only because he was too lazy to follow lockout procedures.
Risk of injury is no competition against laziness.