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> -----Original Message-----
> .From: John Posada [mailto:JPosada -at- book -dot- com]
> .Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 2:39 PM
> My brother is a chef. He went to school for four years at the Culinary
> Institute of America (CIA), one of the top schools in the
> world to learn how
> to cook. Cooking is not a hobby for him. About 20 years ago,
> he was cutting
> ducks on a band saw. He removed the safety guide so he could
> work faster. He
> cut his finger off. The guide would have prevented him from
> cutting off his
> finger. He got a lawyer and they went to court. The position?
> That the guide
> should not have been removable in the first place. He bought
> a new car with
> the settlement.
Hoo-boy! An actual judge let that happen.
I think I hear American founding fathers
spinning in their graves... :-)
I bet (and it's a sure thing...) that the
company would have been sued if the safety
guide was not removable, as it would have
discouraged thorough cleaning and resulted
in food poisoning.
So, did the company make their next products
with non-removable guides? Or did they rig
a safety interlock to just keep the saw from
running when the guide was removed?
By the way, did your brother deliberately
ignore warnings on the equipment? Or were
they not present?
/kevin
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