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BASIC SAFETY PRECAUTIONS
This guide contains many important safety messages. Always read and obey all
safety messages.
w This is the safety alert symbol. It alerts you to safety messages that inform you of hazards that can kill
or hurt you or others or cause damage to the roduct. All safety messages will be receded by the safety
alert symbol and the hazard signal word DANGER, WARNING, or CAUTION. These words mean:
wANGER You might be killed or seriously injured if you don’t follow instructions.
wWARNING You can be killed or seriously injured if you don’t follow instructions.
wCAUTION Indicates an imminently hazardous situation which, if not avoided, may
result in minor or moderate injury, or roduct damage.
All safety messages will identify the hazard, tell you how to reduce the chance of injury, and tell you
what can ha en if the instructions are not followed.
wWARNING
To reduce the risk of fire, electric shock, or
injury to persons when using your product,
basic safety precautions should be followed,
including the following.
Read all instructions before using this appliance.
• NEVER un lug your refrigerator by ulling on the
ower cord. Always gri the lug firmly and ull it
straight out from the outlet.
• Re air or re lace immediately all electric service
cords that have become frayed or otherwise
damaged. Do not use a cord that shows cracks or
abrasion damage along its length or at either the
lug or connector end.
• When moving your refrigerator away from the wall,
be careful not to roll over or damage the ower cord.
• DO NOT store or use gasoline or other flammable
va ors and liquids in the vicinity of this or any other
a liance.
• Do NOT allow children to climb, stand, sit or hang
on doors, drawers or shelves of the refrigerator.
They could damage the refrigerator and seriously
injure themselves.
• Kee fingers out of inch oint areas; clearances
between the doors and cabinet are necessarily
small. Be careful closing doors when children are
in the area.
• Un lug your refrigerator before cleaning or making
any re airs.
NOTE: Service should be erformed by a qualified
technician.
• Before re lacing a burned-out light bulb, un lug the
refrigerator or turn off ower at the circuit breaker
or fuse box in order to avoid contact with a live wire
filament. (A burned-out light bulb may break when
being re laced.)
NOTE: Some models have LED interior lighting and
service should be erformed by a qualified
technician.
NOTE: Setting either or both controls to the OFF
osition does not remove ower to the light circuit.
• When you are finished, reconnect the refrigerator to
the electrical source and reset the control
(Thermostat Refrigerator Control, or Freezer
Control, or Freezer Control, de ending on the
model) to the desired setting.
• This refrigerator must be ro erly installed in
accordance with the Installer Instructions that
were ta ed to the front of the refrigerator.
• After your refrigerator is in o eration, do not touch
the cold surfaces in the freezer com artment when
hands are dam or wet. Skin may adhere to the
extremely cold surfaces.
• In refrigerators with automatic icemakers, avoid
contact with the moving arts of the ejector
mechanism or with the heating element that
releases the cubes. DO NOT lace fingers or hands
on the automatic icemaking mechanism while the
refrigerator is lugged in.
• o not modify or extend the power cord length.
It will cause electric shock or fire.
