[shitloadofbooks]

Wearing gloves when using most power tools is so unbelievably dangerous.

If your gloves get caught by anything rotating at several thousand RPM, there's a huge chance that the material of the glove will catch on the working edge/face and continue to pull your hand/arms/whole body deeper and deeper.

You also don't have any sense of proprioception or kinesthesia with the glove itself, so it's even easier to accidentally do this, whilst thinking that you're well clear.

[bruckie]

Yes, please don't wear gloves when working around (most) power tools.

My mom was wearing gloves when using the table saw one day. She nicked a finger in the blade and it caught on the fabric and pulled her hand in, mangling her fingers pretty badly. Plastic surgeon did a pretty good job reassembling her, but one finger (the one that ended up with a severed tendon) still can't bend properly.

[ilyt]

Table saws generally come with whole slew of "just please fucking don't"[1]. My grand-grandpa lost a part of the thumb to it, which is still probably low price for a man working in construction most of his life in now-post-communist country where OSHA-equivalent didn't exist.

Like, preferably don't even use hands at all to push it in the first place

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN_w0OD6oIs

[Animats]

There's a solution - SawStop. Works fine, industry reaction to it was a long, sad tale.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SawStop