Another good sawstop save....
Two days ago was ripping and cross-cutting some pieces of Baltic Birch for kitchen cabinet shelves. I was using a cross-cutting jig and floating dust collection guard. I had the floating guard raised quite high above the table, to allow room for the cross cutting jig. I had been pushing the large cut-offs away from the blade with a scrap piece. I had the garage door open and as I reaching for my scrap piece I was distracted by something outside...ended up attempting to grab the live, spinning blade rather than the push stick. I heard the pop of the emergency retraction mechanism and was left with a very tiny cut on my thumb. Probably would have cut it clean off, and mangled the rest of my hand. Would have been a truly awful day. Instead, I spent 10 minutes changing the brake cartridge & blade, and kept working.
SB