Manufacturers

A) “The Power Tool Institute (made up of many of the major tool manufacturers) takes strong offense to the concept of making safety devices like this mandatory on products like table saws.”
B) Manufacturers claim that safety should not be mandatory on their tools.
C) Categorical claim (Tools belong to the category safety.)
D) The PTI believes that their tools should not be subjected to more expensive manufacturing costs. This is likely because of them not wanting to lose any profit.

Customers

A)”Society will save money if safer saws are required.”
B) Society will save money if safer saws are required.
C) Causation Claim
D) society will save money as a whole with saw stoppers implemented. This could mean that the amount of money used to install saw stoppers is less than the amount paid out in doctor bills and hardship.

Industry Spokespeople

A) “Mr. Schiech indicated that if the Commission issued a mandatory rule it would be difficult for the industry to comply because of patent restrictions on sensor technology. ”
B) Schiech claims that having this technology on everything would cause problem within the industry.
C) Casual Claim
D) Schiech says that it would be hard for the industry to go into manufacturing these saw-stops for all tools.

Consumer Safety Advocates

A) “The table saw industry is using many of the same arguments that auto manufacturers used to delay airbag requirements for 20 years. In that time, an estimated 162,000 people died unnecessarily.
In the eight years that the Power Tool Industry (PTI) has been opposing automatic safety technology for table saws, an estimated 320,000 serious table saw injuries have occurred, including 32,000 amputations.”
B) the claim compares the table saw industry to the auto industry delaying airbags. It was eventually mandatory and many suffered while it was put off.
C) Resemblance Claim
D) airbags were not standard until 20 years after the idea was brought up. The customer safety advocate in this article explains how it is the same deal with the SawStop. They try showing what will happen in the future by bringing up a similar case which has already been resolved from the past.

Injured Plaintiffs

A) “This week, a man who was cut by a miter saw says Robert Bosch Tool Corp. “colluded with its competitors” and lobbied the Consumer Protection Safety Commission to keep “flesh detection and braking technology” from being required on table saws.”
B) an injured customer claims that Bosch does not want his technology to be required.
C) Evaluation Claim
D) The injured man claims that because Bosch’s safety mechanism is not standard, he can blame him for his injury. Not the best supported claim other than it being possible that he could not afford one of Bosch’s saws as it was out of the casual price range.

Personal Injury Lawyers

A) “Table saws cause more injuries than any other woodworking tool.”
B) Table saws cause more injuries than any other woodworking tool.
C) Definition Claim
D) Table saws cause more injuries than any other woodworking tools.

Government Officials

A) “Today’s unanimous vote by the Commission to approve an advance notice of proposed rule making (ANPR) on table saw blade contact injuries should send a clear signal to consumers and the industry that the Consumer Product Safety Commission is determined to be part of the solution to reduce the serious number of preventable table saw injuries that occur each year.”
B) The Consumer Product Safety Commission claims that they are going to help prevent table saw injuries.
C) Proposal Claim
D) the commission says that because of their unanimous vote, they will help prevent injury cause by table saws. While there is no direct evidence, their governmental position puts them in a place to handle this situation. I can only imagine that they do not want any backlash from not supporting their claim with action.

News Reporters

A) “Anyone who has used a table saw for any period of time is aware, to some extent at least, of the SawStop table saw and the various legal and patent issues surrounding the existence of a fairly new safety mechanism that promises (and in a large way follows through on) a system to provide unheard of safety with respect to the use of an electric saw.”
B) The Reporter assumes that anyone who has used a table saw knows about issues surrounding the SawStop.
C) Categorical Claim (SawStop Awareness belongs to the category All Table Saw Users)
D) This is a bold claim to make. I have used table saws with my father and up until conducting this research, I had no idea the technology existed. The reporter assumed he would be writing to a die hard woodworker, not a college student conducting research.