This manual has safety information and in- structions 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 work'piece
4.Shock or electrocution
5.Burns.
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:
_h, DANGER: means if the safety infor- mation is not followed someone will be seriously injured or killed.
WARNING: mearks if the safety infor- mation is not followed someone could be seriously injured or killed.
_ CAUTION: means if the safety infor- mation is not followed someone might be injured.
Read and follow all safety information and instructions.
Safety
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 hazards. Read the ripping and crosscut- ting safety sections for more detailed ex- planations of these and other hazards.
Outfeed Zone Hazard
_DANGER
If you reach around the blade to the out- feed 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 in-
structions under ripping safety.
