Could Ed Sanders’s injury have been prevented?
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If you watched Extreme Makeover: Home Edition last night, Sunday February 11, 2007, you saw them build a home for a hero from September 11, 2001. It was a very moving story about what he did to help find victims buried in the debris pile.
The flag that Ed started to build is really cool. To make a ‘flying’ flag out of wood looked really great. Like he said in the show, tool guards are there for a reason. Don’t remove them.
I believe that another factor that led to his injury is that he was very tired when the injury occurred. Now, most of us are not under this kind of time pressure when we are building our projects. The lessons that I have taken from the show are:
- Use and leave tool guards on the tools.
- Don’t work on projects when I am overly tired. For me it isn’t worth working on a project when I am so tired that I cannot keep my eyes open to try to get the project done.
Could Ed’s injury have been prevented? It think so. Had he left the grinder guard in place, I am confident that he would not have suffered such a horrific wound. It looks like he is on the road to recovery. Hopefully he will be able to regain full control of his hand and be able to continue to his woodworking profession.
I have to admit that I have removed the table saw guard on my Shop Smith (on loan) and Ryobi BT-3000 table saws. However, today I have decided that I will be reinstalling them before I use the table saw again.
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