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I moved around a lot as a kid, so I saw a lot of wood shop teachers. All were missing various parts of fingers.

Pretty good "mea culpa" video here from a guy that cut his hand up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fifjjacjLBE

I went to school for furniture design in Savannah. None of the teachers were missing any fingers, but plenty of guys from shops in the surrounding area were. From what I recall all of them had lost fingers from jointers and routers, not table saws.

Loosing a digit from a table saw certainly happens, but some of the other tools are less obvious and equally dangerous menaces.

Table saws seem to top the statistics[1][2] though perhaps just because they are so common.

[1] https://www.wwgoa.com/article/shop-accident-statistics-woodw...

[2] https://www.popularwoodworking.com/article/table-saw-injury-...

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