> I use a table saw quite a bit and think there are more ways things can go wrong, most of which stem from kickback which happens in a split second. The wood will either fly back and hit you, or your hand will be pulled into the blade and you will likely lose a finger.

One of the more horrifying things I've witnessed second-hand with kickback was a lucky third scenario. It was high school woodshop and one morning the teacher pulls us all over to the miter saw bench and points at a huge chunk that's missing from it. The bench surface was two or three layers of MDF glued and screwed together. He explained that someone had been cutting something on the table saw 8 feet away from it, had a kickback, the kickback missed but the piece of wood shot into the miter bench and that was the result. Thinking about what that same piece of wood would have done if it had hit a human... yeesh, I definitely treated kickback with a lot more respect after that day.