Product type
Recalls involving miter saws and their blade guards.
10 official CPSC notices published 1980–2023, covering at least 1.6 million units.
Type the model number from your miter saw's label. Every model number named in a miter saw recall is listed below, grouped by notice.
7 model numbers
DeWALT 12-inch Sliding Compound Miter Saws · 22-196 · 2022
Performax and Wilton 10" Sliding Miter Saws · 08-100 · 2007
DEWALT 12-inch miter saws · 01-073 · 2001
Black & Decker electric-powered miter saws · 88-071 · 1988
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The recalled replacement lower blade guards do not sufficiently cover the saw blade and can break when making a cut, posing an injury hazard to the user.
The miter saw's rear safety guard can break or detach, posing an injury hazard due to projectiles that can strike the user and bystanders and a laceration hazard to the user who could come into direct contact with the saw blade.
The lower guard can break and contact the blade during use, posing a laceration hazard to users.
The saw handle's switch can fail, causing the saw to smoke, spark, and trip circuit breakers, and disable the safety brake. The saw also can keep operating unless the unit is unplugged, posing a laceration hazard to consumers.
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The aluminum cast pivot joint that connects the base of the saw to the head assembly (which contains the saw blade) can crack under extreme pressure or force, causing the blade assembly to unexpectedly break free from the stationary base. This poses a laceration hazard to consumers.
Bolts on the saws can loosen and the blade could detach, posing a risk of lacerations to consumers.
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Bolts on the saws can loosen and the blade could detach, posing a risk of lacerations to consumers.
Totals add up the figures the notices state, counting a reannounced or restated recall once; 7 of 10 notices add a unit count. A notice that gives no number adds nothing.
Counted across all 10 notices on file as of October 31, 2026. Each line says how many notices it rests on.
Lowe's (2), Amazon (1), Harbor Freight (1), and The Home Depot (1) are the stores named most often in the 7 notices that say where miter saws were sold. 1 of the 7 notices mentions online sales.
The 6 notices that give a price range from $10 to $820. Half of them name a price of $240 or less.
By the 7 notices that give sale dates, half the products were on sale for 2 years or less; the longest for 5 years. Half the recalls came within 3.5 years of the first sale; the other half reached products that had been on sale longer.
A replacement in 2 of the 3 notices that name a remedy, a repair in 1. Some notices offer more than one.
Laceration is named in 7 of the 10 notices (70%), against 7% of all CPSC notices on file.
All 7 notices that describe incidents report at least one.
4 of the 10 notices list model numbers. They also name serial numbers in 2, date codes or manufacture dates in 6. A matching model number is a reason to open the notice, not the last word.
Where the notices say the numbers are: “on the nameplate on the top of the saw's housing” (2 notices), “on the bottom of the saw's warning label”, and “on the decal of the nameplate on the saw”.
China (4), Mexico (1) and Taiwan (1), in the 5 notices that name a manufacturing country.
As of October 31, 2026, CPSC has published 10 recall notices for miter saws since 1980, covering at least 1.6 million units. The most recent is “Harbor Freight Tools USA Recalls Replacement Lower Blade Guards for 12-Inch Chicago Electric Miter Saw Due to Injury Hazard; Sold Exclusively at Harbor Freight Tools (Recall Alert)” (CPSC 23-729), announced February 23, 2023.
No. As of October 31, 2026, CPSC has published no recall notice for miter saws in 2026. The most recent was announced February 23, 2023 (CPSC 23-729).
“DeWALT Recalls Nearly 1.4 Million Miter Saws Due to Injury and Laceration Hazards” (CPSC 22-196), announced August 4, 2022: about 1.4 million units.
Brands named most often: Black & Decker (3), Black & Decker electric-powered (2), DEWALT (2), Sears (2), WMH Tool Group Inc. (WMH) (2), Bosch, Craftsman and Harbor Freight Tools. Brand-name products are often made by another firm, so one recall can span several brands.
Find the model number on the product's rating label, then type it into the model-number lookup on this page. A match means the number appears in an official CPSC notice; open that notice to confirm any date codes or serial ranges it lists. No match is not proof that a product is safe. 4 of the 10 notices here list model numbers. They also name serial numbers in 2 and date codes or manufacture dates in 6. The place they name most often is “on the nameplate on the top of the saw's housing”.
Follow the remedy in the official notice and contact the firm it names. Across miter saw recalls, the remedies offered most often are replacement (2) and repair (1).
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