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Attachment for brush cutter safety alert: injuries risk

Attachment for brush cutter
Image: Poland via EU Safety Gate

What's being recalled

Attachment for brush cutters for trimming and cutting lawn edges or other vegetation. The cutting attachment comprises six mobile knives that can be used for cutting when they rotate at high speed.

Country of origin: Unknown.

How to identify it

Safety Gate alert SR/02950/26

Product name on the item: Glowica tarcza do kosy spalinowej

Type or model: A 657

The hazard

The bolts or rivets attaching the knives to the flail-cutter could break. The chains might consequently detach during use and hit the user causing injuries.

The product does not comply with the requirements of the Machinery Directive nor with the Commission Decision 2012/32/EU prohibiting the placing on the market of flail-type cutting attachments for portable hand-held brush cutters.

What to do

Removal from online marketplace (voluntary, other).

Warning consumers of risks (voluntary, other).

Product withdrawal from market (voluntary, distributor).

The official notice

This page is a summary of the notice published by Poland via EU Safety Gate, collected from EU Safety Gate. Check the original before you act on it.

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