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?

After four years of promoting a clever safety device and failing to license it to power-tool makers, a small engineering team in Wilsonville, Ore., is entering the manufacturing business. It will ...

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 ...

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, ...

We’ve all seen finger joints or box joints, those interlocking puzzle pieces that make laser-cut plywood enclosures such a fixture for DIY projects. But laser cutters make finger joints look much ...

We've seen the hot dog demo from Sawstop that shows their blade-braking technology in action. But Kenny Koehler at Pro Tool Reviews decided to take it a step further by risking his own finger and hand ...

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 ...

On Wednesday, the FTC issued an advisory to the Trump administration to scrap a proposed rule by the Consumer Product Safety Commission to force saw manufacturers to use an automated finger-detection ...