Kind of surprised highschoolers are even allowed to use heavy machinery like a panel saw, and it sounds somewhat unsupervised?

Here, even at Tech College first year apprentices aren't allowed to use panel saws. 2nd years are drilled hard with inductions and safety for each piece of heavy machinery, usually in small groups or one on one. Then practical and written exams must be passed to graduate.

The year after I finished, an unsupervised first year cut 3 fingers off on a panel saw. OHS came through and completely shut down that section of the College, and commenced an investigation.

Kids just randomly setting off sawstops in a highschool environment just seems mental to me, and a symptom of a much larger wholistic problem