United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States National Archives and Records Administration Office of the Federal Register author aut Government Organization text government publication eng FR Regulatory Information 2017_register executive 2017-05-12 article Part II Proposed Rules D09002ee1c7f19825 D09002ee1c7f198da United States Consumer Product Safety Commission originator org United States Government Agency or Subagency The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has determined preliminarily that there may be an unreasonable risk of blade-contact injuries associated with table saws. In 2015, there were an estimated 33,400 table saw, emergency department-treated injuries. Of these, CPSC staff estimates that 30,800 (92 percent) are likely related to the victim making contact with the saw blade. CPSC staff's review of the existing data indicates that currently available safety devices, such as the modular blade guard and riving knife, do not adequately address the unreasonable risk of blade-contact injuries on table saws. To address this risk, the Commission proposes a rule that is based, in part, on work conducted by Underwriters Laboratories Inc. The proposed rule would establish a performance standard that requires table saws, when powered on, to limit the depth of cut to 3.5 millimeters when a test probe, acting as surrogate for a human body/finger, contacts the spinning blade at a radial approach rate of 1 meter per second (m/s). The proposed rule would address an estimated 54,800 medically treated blade-contact injuries annually. The Commission estimates that the proposed rule's aggregate net benefits on an annual basis could range from about $625 million to about $2,300 million. 82 FR 22190 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/FR-2017-05-12/2017-09098 2017-09098 fr12my17-19 RIN 3041-AC31 6355-01-P Docket No. CPSC-2011-0074 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/FR-2017-05-12/2017-09098 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2017-05-12/html/2017-09098.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2017-05-12/pdf/2017-09098.pdf Consumer Protection Imports Information Safety 58 p. 22190 22247 82 FR 22190 Title 16 Part 1245 16 CFR Part 1245 RIN 3041-AC31 Safety Standard Addressing Blade-Contact Injuries on Table Saws; Federal Register Vol. 82, Issue PRORULE 2017-09098 II CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION 2017-07-26 Docket No. CPSC-2011-0074 6355-01-P 2017-09098 Notice of proposed rulemaking.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has determined preliminarily that there may be an unreasonable risk of blade-contact injuries associated with table saws. In 2015, there were an estimated 33,400 table saw, emergency department-treated injuries. Of these, CPSC staff estimates that 30,800 (92 percent) are likely related to the victim making contact with the saw blade. CPSC staff's review of the existing data indicates that currently available safety devices, such as the modular blade guard and riving knife, do not adequately address the unreasonable risk of blade-contact injuries on table saws. To address this risk, the Commission proposes a rule that is based, in part, on work conducted by Underwriters Laboratories Inc. The proposed rule would establish a performance standard that requires table saws, when powered on, to limit the depth of cut to 3.5 millimeters when a test probe, acting as surrogate for a human body/finger, contacts the spinning blade at a radial approach rate of 1 meter per second (m/s). The proposed rule would address an estimated 54,800 medically treated blade-contact injuries annually. The Commission estimates that the proposed rule's aggregate net benefits on an annual basis could range from about $625 million to about $2,300 million.

Submit comments by July 26, 2017. Caroleene Paul, Directorate for Engineering Sciences, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, 5 Research Place, Rockville, MD 20850; telephone (301) 987-2225; fax (978) 367-9122; email cpaul@cpsc.gov. Consumer Protection Imports Information Safety Safety Standard Addressing Blade-Contact Injuries on Table Saws , cpaul@cpsc.gov http://library.ul.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2015/02/UL_WhitePapers_Tablesaw_V11.pdf http://library.ul.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2015/12/UL-Research-Report-on-Finger-Surrogate-Characteristics-for-Table-Saw-Testing-2015.pdf http://ulstandards.ul.com/about/harmonizing-standards/ http://ulstandards.ul.com/develop-standards/stps/ul-patentpolicy/?_ga=l.154860536.1359786552.1492183496 http://www.cpsc.gov//Global/Research-and-Statistics/Injury-Statistics/Home%20Maintenance%20and%20Construction/CoverpageandMemoofStaffAnalysisofTableSawTypeinNEISSSpecialStudy.pdf http://www.cpsc.gov//PageFiles/118311/statsaws.pdf http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Research--Statistics/NEISS-Injury-Data http://www.cpsc.gov/Global/Regulations-Laws-and-Standards/Voluntary-Standards/Voluntary-Standards-Reports/EurekaFactsTableSawBladeGuardSurveyReport http://www.powertoolinstitute.com/pti-includes/pdfs/Tool-Specific-Files/Table-Saws.pdf http://www.regulations.gov https://dataweb.usitc.gov/scripts/user_set.asp https://share.ansi.org/shared%20documents/Standards%20Activities/American%20National%20Standards/Procedures,%20Guides,%20and%20Forms/2017_ANSI_Essential_Requirements.pdf https://www.cpsc.gov/About-CPSC https://www.cpsc.gov/PageFiles/100269/costmodept1.PDF https://www.cpsc.gov/research-statistics/other-technical-reports https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/CPSClettertoULcommenttoAIMS.pdf https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/CPSClettertoULcommenttoAIMSproposalwenclosures.pdf https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/pdfs/powersaw.pdf https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/Proposed%20Rule%20-%20Safety%20Standard%20for%20Blade-Contact%20Injuries%20on%20Table%20Saws%20-%20January%2017%202017.pdf https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/avulsion https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4154236/ https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=CPSC-2011-0074-1106 https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars_a004_a-4 regulations.gov www.regulations.gov Vol. 82, no. 91 Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration 2017-05-12 continuing daily deposited born digital 220 p. Table of Contents: AE 2.7: GS 4.107: AE 2.106: KF70.A2 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/FR-2017-05-12 P0b002ee194d5f742 0097-6326 0042-1219 0364-1406 769-004-00000-9 000582072 f:fr12my17 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/FR-2017-05-12 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2017-05-12/pdf/FR-2017-05-12.pdf https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2017-05-12/xml/FR-2017-05-12.xml fdlp 22065 22277 DGPO 2017-05-12 2024-06-01 FR-2017-05-12 machine generated eng FR FR-2017-05-12 82 91