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?

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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A bill has been introduced in Congress that would prevent a proposed Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) rule on saw safety claiming the rule would lead to a monopoly on table ...

Oregon company makes ‘smart’ saws that can tell the difference between wood and hands CONCORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A small Oregon company is changing woodworking professionals’ jobs with a table ...

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 ...

Apparently ending decades of efforts to require SawStop-style flesh-sensing safety devices on table saws, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission quietly dropped a proposed rule that had ...

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Tom Noffsinger stands in his garage workshop, where he uses a SawStop table saw for woodworking at his home in Raleigh, North Carolina. About 20 years ago, Noffsinger had a table saw accident and ...