EN IEC 62841-2-22:2025

Electric motor-operated hand-held tools, transportable tools and lawn and garden machinery - Safety - Part 2-22: Particular requirements for hand-held cut-off machines

Publication date:   Feb 17, 2026

Scope

IEC 62841-2-22:2025 applies to hand-held cut-off machines fitted with

- one bonded reinforced wheel of Type 41 or Type 42; or

- one or more diamond cutting wheels with peripheral gaps, if any,

• having no positive rake angle; and

• not exceeding 10 mm for cut-off machines other than flush cutters, power cutters and wall chasers; and with

- a rated no-load speed not exceeding a peripheral speed of the wheel of 100 m/s at rated capacity; and

- a rated capacity not exceeding 430 mm.

NOTE 101 An example of a permitted diamond cutting wheel construction is shown in Figure 106.

These tools are intended to cut materials such as metals, concrete, masonry, glass and tile.

This document does not apply to:

- cut-off machines that can be converted to a grinder, sander or polisher, which are covered by IEC 62841-2-3;

- circular saws which are covered by IEC 62841-2-5; and

- die grinders and small rotary tools which are covered by IEC 62841-2-23;

- tools intended to cut wood, except for utility cutters;

- cut-off machines fitted with a bonded reinforced wheel of Type 42 with a diameter exceeding 230 mm.

This document is to be used in conjunction with IEC 62841-1:2014.

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