Sockets Ratchets & Attachments

• Users and bystanders must wear safety goggles. • To avoid possible eye injury from flying objects, safety goggles or equivalent protection conforming to ANSI Z87.1 shall be worn and kept clean by the user and all persons in the immediate area where any tool is being used. • Comfort or plastic grips on handles are not intended to give any degree of protection against electric shock and shall not be used on or near live electrical circuits. • Never use hand sockets or hand attachments on power drivers, impact drivers or hydraulic drivers. Black industrial sockets, Torx sockets, and Torx bit sockets are designed and finished to be hand sockets – not impact. • Never use cheater bars to increase handle leverage. • Never hammer on a ratchet or handle. • Never use ratchets or other handles as a hammer or pry bar. • Hand sockets are to be attached to ratchets and handles and used by hand to turn fasteners. • Users shall apply a controlled force with a stance adjusted and braced to prevent rapid bodily movement or a fall if a sudden release occurs. • Use the correct size socket, do not use metric sockets on inch fasteners or inch sockets on metric fasteners, because the fit is not good enough. Do not use hex sockets on square fasteners or square sockets on hex fasteners. • Place the socket all the way on the fastener. • Adaptor strength is limited to the smallest drive square member. • Never use sockets as a driver for hex or square bits or shafts. • Inspect and discard bent, worn or cracked sockets, handles or attachments. • Socket opening configurations shall be inspected before each use and their use discontinued at the first sign of significant wrenching surface deteriorated