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In commercial woodworking the table saw is replaced by the planer (jointer if you're American). Good example would be this video (not for those of a week constitution no graphic images but still pretty intense)
For those interested there is a whole series documenting his recovery and rather amazingly his eventual return to work.
Bobbo-
I like this channel, in particular the house build series they put out every couple of days. I think about him every time I use my "jointer". In a commercial setting with ear defenders on the way it happened to him really is easily done.
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Horrendous. But I’ve used a planer and it seems safer than a table saw to me. Except for the fact perhaps that you can’t easily tell when it’s running.
Hovis
Sharkstar
The table saw holds a special place in the cultural consciousness as something uniquely dangerous. This discussion has reminded me of Robert Frost’s poem ‘Out, Out -’ : “The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard / Snarled and rattled”. The title of the poem is a reference to Macbeth, “Out, out, brief candle / Life’s but a walking shadow” and the lad using the buzz (old school table) saw in the poem does indeed snuff it.