Safety
This manual has safety information and instructions to help users eliminate or reduce the risk of accidents and injuries, including:
1.Severe cuts, and loss of fingers or other body parts due to contact with the blade.
2.Eye impact injuries and blindness, from being hit by a thrown workpiece, workpiece chips or pieces of blade.
3.Bodily impact injuries, broken bones and internal organ damage from being hit by a thrown workpiece.
4.Shock or electrocution.
5.Burns.
Major Hazards
Three major hazards are associated with using the radial arm saw for ripping. They are outfeed zone hazard, kickback and wrong way feed.
This section only briefly explains these haz- ards. Read the ripping and crosscutting safety sections for more detailed explana- tions of these and other hazards.
Outfeed Zone Hazard
Safety Symbol and Signal Words
An exclamation mark inside a triangle is the safety alert symbol.
It is used to draw attention to safety infor- mation in the manual and on the saw. It is followed by a signal word, DANGER, WARNING or CAUTION, which tells the level of risk:
DANGER: means if the safety informa- tion is not followed someone will be seri- ously injured or killed.
WARNING: means if the safety informa- tion is not followed someone could be seri- ously injured or killed.
CAUTION: means if the safety informa- tion is not followed someone may be injured.
Read and follow all safety information and instructions.
If you reach around the blade to the outfeed side when ripping, and try to hold down or pull the workpiece through to complete a cut, the rotational force of the blade will pull your hand back into the blade.
Fingers will be cut off.
Read and follow the information and instructions under ripping safety.
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