The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 18th, 1996
Two University of Massachusetts Medical Center doctors, after studying a spate of snow blower finger-slicing casualties, are urging a makeover for the machines.
"Snow blowers are dangerous machines," wrote Richard Aghababian, chairman of emergency medicine at the medical center, and his colleague David Tetz. "A change in snow blower design . . . is necessary to prevent these devastating injuries" to hands.
One widely unappreciated danger, they say, most common in older machines, is that the blades in the discharge chutes can sometimes slice off fingers even after the user has followed the ma...
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