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EU Safety Gate · Report-2023-41

Straus Austria · 6 Tooth Blade

The rivets attaching the cutting knives to the blade could break. The knives might consequently detach during use and hit the user. The product does not comply with the requirements of the Machinery Directive and Commission Decision 2012/32/EU prohibiting the placing on the market of flail-type cutting attachments for portable hand-held brush cutters.

Published
13 October 2023
Notifying authority
Hungary
Catalog checked
30 July 2026
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Type of economic operator to whom the measure(s) were ordered: Distributor. Category of measure(s): Warning consumers of the risks. Date of entry into force: 04/12/2022 · Type of economic operator to whom the measure(s) were ordered: Distributor. Category of measure(s): Withdrawal of the product from the market. Date of entry into force: 04/12/2022

Official source alert
Safety Gate reference
A12/02478/23
Model
ST/HT-0486
Check-digit validated barcodes
1982004860004
Category
Machinery
Risk type
Injuries
Country of origin
Not published

Cutting attachment consisting of 6 knives. Maximum diameter of the cutting attachment: 250mm. Product sold online.