Small Golden Sceptre » oh noes http://mythopoeic.org Technology, Rambling and Dragons Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:00:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Plywood: The Silent Killer http://mythopoeic.org/plywood/ http://mythopoeic.org/plywood/#comments Mon, 25 Apr 2011 02:11:01 +0000 dhenke http://mythopoeic.org/?p=1085 I bought a couple of pieces of plywood today. You know the stuff: Useful, made of wood, pretty boring, kinda flat, deadly. Wait, what? Yep. Says so right on it:

Warning: This product may generate wood dust, a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer.


Granted, this was the pressure-treated outdoor kind, so it isn’t inconceivable that it might have something (or several somethings) in it that are on the Proposition 65 list. However:

  1. Plywood doesn’t spontaneously generate wood dust. I guess “This product produces potential carcinogens if you attack it with power tools” was deemed insufficiently snappy.
  2. Wood dust isn’t a “chemical” in even the loosest possible sense of that term.
  3. If you’re simpleminded enough to lick sawdust, it’s probably a mercy if it poisons you.

a picture of what a pile of sawdust might look like

I’m still not sure who to call about disposing of this pile of hazardous waste on my shop floor…

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