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. Bums.
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 safe-
ty sections for more detailed explanations 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 informa-
tion in the manual and on tile 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.
4_lL WARNING: means if the safety infor-
mation is not followed someone could be
seriously injured or killed.
4_lb CAIYFION: means if the safety infor-
mation is not followed someone might be
injured.
Read and follow all safety information
and instructions.
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.
Read and follow the information and
instructions under ripping safety.
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