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applications. Serious personal injury may
result.
When using the steel saws, cutoff wheels,
high speed cutters or tungsten carbide
cutters, always have the work securely
clamped. Never attempt to hold the work
with one hand while using any of these
accessories. The reason is that these wheels
will grab if they become slightly canted in the
groove, and can kickback causing loss of
control resulting in serious injury. Your second
hand should be used to steady and guide the
hand holding the tool. When a cutoff wheel
grabs, the wheel itself usually breaks. When
the steel saw, high speed cutters or tungsten
carbide cutter grab, it may jump from the
groove and you could lose control of the tool.
Some dust created by
W RNING
power sanding, sawing,
grinding, drilling, and other construction
activities contains chemicals known to
cause cancer, birth defects or other
reproductive harm. Some examples of
these chemicals are:
• Lead from lead-based paints,
• Crystalline silica from bricks and cement and
other masonry products, and
• Arsenic and chromium from chemically
treated lumber.
Your risk from these exposures varies,
depending on how often you do this type of
work. To reduce your exposure to these
chemicals: work in a well ventilated area, and
work with approved safety equipment, such as
those dust masks that are specially designed
to filter out microscopic particles.
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