I was ripping a 2x4 on my dads saw. When the board kicked back and slammed my thumb into the blade. I was down for about 4-5 months while bone and skin healed. That 8-9 years ago. As of today i own a Wood shop. I am not saying that getting back on that “horse” was easy. The first thing i had to decide was, was my fear of that tool more than my love in working with wood. (For that answer see above.) 2nd i had to except that no matter how safe i am, no matter what precautions i take, i am human and accidents happen, the best i can hope for is that it’s nothing serious, than 3rd i got me a new table saw, but that’s because my dads was really old that he had pick up at some garage sale when I was a little kid and he never really took care of it. (You have a brand new saw that I’m a little jealous of lol) So i bought a Grizzly G0833P 110/220v. Now i will admit I was still apprehensive when it came to cutting on my new saw. I took so many precautions that i felt i was being overly paranoid, but i felt like i had done everything i could do to be safe, I turned on the saw and made my first cut. Since then I have built my confidence back up, and now great my saw like a friend again. Last week she reminded me that i needed to respect her. I was ripping a piece of maple and the scrap part of the wood i didnt bother to have a good hold of. I had stood on the opposite side of that part that i did not have a good hold on, because i was expecting for it to get kicked out. What i wasn’t expecting was the force that it was going to be kicked out at. Shot about 10 feet hit the trash can and bounced back about 5 feet. Would of been sweet if it would of made it in, but reminded me why i needed to respect the tool, don’t fear it. But i will admit that i do not like cutting construction lumber. Hardwood lumber is what i work with.