6 Tooth Blade · Injuries
Product: Attachment for brush cutters · Straus Austria · ST/HT-0486
Category: Machinery · Hungary
Hazard: 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.
Official action: 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: 04/12/2022Type 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