Table saw injuries occur frequently – every 9 minutes.
The average per-accident business cost is $67,000.
The impact of a table saw injury begins immediately and lasts for years.
|
Individual Impact |
Business Impact |
| First three hours |
- Medical trauma and shock
- Critical treatment in the case of missing body parts to reattach before circulation is lost
- Fear
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- Lost work time to deal with accident
- Delayed projects
- Distracted workforce
|
| First week |
- Pain and hospitalization
- Difficult choices including amputation
- Concern about Insurance costs
- Crisis to personal life
- Lost or decreased wages
|
- Low employee morale
- Administrative follow-up related to workplace accident
- Decreased productivity during worker absence
|
| First month |
- Physical therapy and occupational therapy
- Psychological struggles as realities of dealing with new disability set in
- Major disruption to family and personal life
- Lost or decreased wages
|
- Governmental safety inspection and possible fines
- Workers comp insurance audit
- Mandated safety audit and training programs
- Decreased productivity during injured-worker retraining
|
| Three years plus |
- Permanent adverse effects
- Possible permanent impairment of ability to do job
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- Increased workers comp premiums for a minimum of three years
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By preventing serious lost-time injuries, SawStop table saws pay for themselves 40-times over in financial terms and provide an incalculable value in terms of employee well being.
