At the risk of being picky, "There is certainly no safety risk involved if a breaker is tripped" is not true in all cases. For example, I know of an instance where a bit of twisted and gnarly grained hard wood stalled a table saw while being cut without a splitter. The kerf closed tight and squeezed the blade, plus possibly the wood pulled at a bit of angle and bound up between the saw and guide, and the breaker tripped. The guy extracted the wood, set it back down on the table (apparently in contact with the blade) and, forgetting to turn off the saw (which had a mechanical rather than electromagnetic switch), went and reset the breaker. So, the saw started up again when the breaker reset and shot the wood several feet across the room into a wall. Fortunately, the only injuries were a chewed up board and hole in the wall.
