General Information
Revision date
2011-04-28
Product name
MIG Wire Copper Silicon Bronze
supplier name
Sealey Quality Machinery
Icons in SDS
Company Information
company name
Sealey Quality Machinery
e-mail address of the competent person responsible for the Safety Data Sheet
sales@sealey.co.uk
Section 2
SECTION 2: Hazards identification
EMERGENCY OVERVIEW: When this product is used for it’s intended purpose, fumes and gases produced as a by product can be hazardous to health. Aggravation of pre-existing respiratory or allergic conditions may occur in some workers. Arc rays can injure eyes and burn skin. Electric shock can kill.
Potential health effects
Eye: No special hazard risk under normal use. Dusts or particulates may cause mechanical irritation including pain, tearing, and redness. Scratching of the cornea can occur if eye is rubbed. Fumes may be irritating. Contact with the heated material may cause thermal burns. Skin: No special hazard risk under normal use. Dusts or particulates may cause mechanical irritation due to abrasion. May cause skin irritation in sensitive individuals. Contact with heated material may cause thermal burns. Ingestion: Ingestion is an unlikely route of exposure; no hazard in normal industrial use. Swallowing of excessive amounts of the dust may cause irritation, nausea, and diarrhoea. Inhalation: No special hazard risk under normal use. Dusts may cause irritation of the nose, throat, and lungs. Excessive inhalation of metallic fumes and dusts may result in metal fume fever, an influenza-like illness. Chronic: Respiratory tract irritation, metal fume fever, eye irritation. Long term repeated exposures to excessive fume concentrations may lead to intoxication, including kidney disease, anemia, nervous disorders, birth defects and nasal and lung cancer. 5.
