1-12 Edition 1.0 * Supplementary Operator’s Manual for Protective Structures for Excavators
Supplementary Operator’s Manual for Protective Structures for Excavators
Protective Front Guard structure category I (option)
Stabbing/puncture/crushing hazard from falling objects
(fragments or splinters) projected from front of machine.
Objects will cause severe injury or death.
• Machine operation is prohibited in areas with risks of objects penetrating the
cab from the front of the machine, for instance pipes, tree trunks etc. and of
falling objects, without a protective Front Guard structure with an integrated
FOPS.
The protective Front Guard structure corresponds to category I according to
ISO 10262:1998 (valid for 2503/28Z3/3003/3503/3703/38Z3).
• Follow all local, state, or national regulations covering falling objects.
• The operator must ensure that only work is performed that does not require any
higher protection.
• Accidencts cannot be fully avoided despite equipping a machine with protective
structures.
Protective structures may only be installed or removed by an authorized
Wacker Neuson Service Center.
Fig. 6: Protective Front Guard structure (symbolic repre-
sentation)