Mechanical pulley system for arborists
Petzl · Prusik mechanical ZIGZAG
Protective equipmentInjuries
- Country of origin
- France
- Notifying country
- Spain
Requirements breached
The product poses the risk of injuries du to the particular configuration of an incorrectly-positioned and off-axis upper connector. Two accidents reported.
Measures taken
- Recall of the product from end users Voluntary measuresTaken by: OtherIn force from: 30 April 2013
Product
- Description
- Product enabling users to prune trees by climbing up the trees themselves (and not using cranes). The recall concerns all products “ZIGZAG” with serial numbers below 13108******. The product does not comply with the Personal Protective Equipment Directive (PPE).
- Brand
- Model / type
- Batch
Original source
Data comes from the official Safety Gate system of the European Commission.
- Alert number
- A12/0664/13 ↗
- Weekly report
- Report-2013-022
- Published
- 31 May 2013
- Corrigendum
- <font color="#ff0000"><b>Corrigendum</b></font><br/> Notification A12/0488/13 from week 16 of 2013 has been temporarily removed waiting for correction data from economic operator and new risk assessment by the notifying authorities.
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