I struggle with the “one life is too many” logic.
Alcohol, interstates, guns, sugar, the list is a mile long of dangerous things that we tolerate for personal benefit. If we went by “one is too many”, for everyone’s pet issue, then we’d have nothing to do.
I’m not downplaying the significance of anyone’s injury or death. I’m just trying to be fair, and pragmatic about it.
Im struggling to see how continuing to log/mill at all is ok, when injuries due to metal in wood are at worst a fraction of the injuries and death due to other hazards of the job. If one is too many, why are we logging/milling in the first place, case hardened steel aside?