The case joins a growing number of table saw injury lawsuits filed in recent years against various different manufacturers, raising similar claims that the failure to include SawStop Technology makes the products unreasonably dangers and unsafe. The lawsuit notes that representatives of the manufacturers had met with SawStop representatives at that time, and were even offered a licensing agreement to use the technology, but failed to do so. The complaint indicates that the Home Depot table saw was defectively designed because it did not include flesh-detecting technology, such as SawStop, despite the manufacturers and sellers being aware of the technology as early as 2000 or 2001, long before Avery purchased the table saw. “He also cannot bend the remaining portions of his left index finger, preventing him from being able to effectively utilize it during his day-to-day life.” “Although Plaintiff’s injury occurred nearly two years ago, he continues to experience pain and numbness in his left hand daily,” the lawsuit states. Fearing a potential kickback, which could cause severe injury or death, Avery indicates that he attempted to move his body to protect himself, but the fingers on his left hand contacted the table saw blade.ĭue to the lack of flesh-sensing technology, which allows table saws to stop immediately upon contact with a finger or hand, Avery indicates that he suffered a traumatic partial amputation and a neuroma of his left index finger, as well as lacerations to his left middle and ring fingers, fractures in his left index and ring fingers, and degenerative changes in one of his left thumb joints. However, he indicates that while he was working on a rip cut in a piece of wood in February 2015, a push stick he was moving got stuck. as defendants.Īvery indicates that he is an experienced woodworker who purchased a Ridgid table saw expecting that it would be safe for ordinary use.
District Court for the District of Arizona on February 23, naming One World Technologies, Techtronic Industries North America, Ridgid Inc., Emerson Electrical Company and Home Depot USA, Inc.
The complaint (PDF) was filed by Glen Avery in the U.S. A Ridgid table saw sold by Home Depot failed to utilize available safety features, making it unreasonably dangerous and defective, according to allegations raised in a product liability lawsuit filed by a many who suffered a partial finger amputation that he claims may have been avoided if the table saw had been equipped with readily available flesh-detecting technology.
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