• Omega
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    73 days ago

    I’m guessing it’s any death when a leftie is using right handed equipment, even though deaths would have happened anyways. However, if they counted how much higher it is than it would be for righties statistically, I could accept that some dangerous equipment is slightly more dangerous with the wrong handle (like chainsawing).

    But also, I remember that texting while driving deaths statistics were inflated because they just included any time a phone had been on within several minutes of an accident, regardless of circumstances.

    • @[email protected]
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      83 days ago

      Honestly from my experience this could be chainsaws alone. They’re by far the worst thing I’ve come across as a lefty and I’m fairly ambi. Most other chiral two handed power tools either don’t matter as much or can trivially be swapped around like angle grinders, trimmers, etc.