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Grocery

The safer butcher bandsaw for grocery retail

Grocery meat cutters suffer more severe bandsaw injuries than any other workers. Guardian stops the blade before an injury can happen.

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Grocery has more bandsaw injuries than any other industry

More than metal shops, more than meat plants. 83% of these injuries are amputations, almost all fingers and thumbs.

Grocery stores and supermarkets347 · 38%
Manufacturing196 · 21%
Meat plants104 · 11%

Source: OSHA Severe Injury Reports, January 2015 to November 2025, 919 bandsaw injuries (federal OSHA states).

3D Vision Technology™ stops the blade before injuries occur

Traditional contact sensing only activates after the operator already made contact with the blade. The Guardian anticipates injuries and stops them in their tracks.

About the saw

The first zero-accident bandsaw, built for grocery

Our grocery saw

Guardian Lite

Our most compact safety bandsaw, made for supermarket meat rooms. 3D Vision Technology, an onboard compressor and a sliding table, in a footprint that fits where your current saw stands.

Guardian Lite safety bandsaw
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Rancho Markets meat cutter presenting a gloved hand to the Guardian vision system

01 · No cable, no clip-on

To start cutting, meat cutters simply present their gloves to the vision system.

Operator cutting on a Guardian Lite in a Rancho Markets back room

02 · Plug and play

Small footprint, onboard compressor. Plug it in and start working.

Sliding table with pusher guiding meat through the blade

03 · Fast cuts

Sliding table with guides. Resets in seconds after an activation.

  • IP69K

    Rated for high-pressure, high-temperature washdown

  • UL certified

    Certified for electrical safety in the U.S. and Canada

  • NSF certified

    Hygienic design for food equipment, certified by UL to NSF/ANSI 8

Featured Case Study

Cheaper than accidents: Why Rancho Markets switched to Guardian

"A lawsuit in a meat department is more costly than the value of a Guardian machine."

Guardian Portal

Your safety manager can't be in every store. The Portal can.

In a chain with dozens of stores, no one can check every meat room every day. The Guardian Portal shows activations, run hours and blade life for every saw, so you can see which stores need attention.

Guardian PortalAll stores · last 30 days
Saws online24
Run hours3,912
Activations14
StoreRun hoursActivationsStatus
Store 12 · Eastside2126At risk
Store 07 · Harbor4881Service due
Store 03 · Main Street1650OK
Store 21 · Northgate3012OK

Illustrative data

  1. 01Spot stores and employees at risk
  2. 02Track run hours store by store
  3. 03Keep up on maintenance
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Service and support

Local support, wherever your stores are

Guardian saws come with service across North America. Our team can also connect to a saw remotely to diagnose issues, so your store staff don't have to.

  • 1,000+

    Guardian saws installed worldwide

  • Next day

    Spare parts shipped next-day air

  • Bilingual

    Local support in English and Spanish