This manual has safety information and
ins_ctions 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.Bums.
Safety Symbol and Signal Words
An exclamation mark inside a triangle is the safety alert symbol.
It is used to draw attention to safety informa- tion 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 infor- mation is not followed someone will be seri- ously injured or killed.
WARNING: means if the safety infor- mation is not followed someone could be seriously injured or killed.
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,_ 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 ouffeed zone hazard, kickback, and
wrong way feed.
This section only briefly explains these haz- ards. Read the ripping and crosscutting safe- ty sections of your saw manual for more detailed explanations of these and other haz- ards.
Outfeed Zone Hazard
,i_t,DANGER
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.
