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Hazards of Commonly Used Construction Materials
The left-hand column of the list below consists of materials commonly found at construction sites. Each one represents a potential physical or health hazard to individuals exposed to them. Some of the materials on the list are raw materials, containing no mixture of ingredients (i.e. Argon) while many of the materials on the list represent formulated mixtures of other substances including at least one ingredient that is itself hazardous.
The materials and ingredients on the list that are underlined in black are linked to the Hazard Overview and MSDS the HazMat Zone maintains for them. Since the HazMat Zone cannot create or maintain MSDS information for commercial products with trade-protected formulations of ingredients, you'll find such products (i.e. caulking compound) on this list underlined in red. Clicking on those products will take you to the SIRI website's directory page of vendor-supplied MSDSs for those products.
MATERIAL |
MAJOR HAZARDOUS INGREDIENT |
Asphalt |
Petroleum hydrocarbons |
Acetylene |
Acetylene |
Aluminum |
Aluminum dust |
Argon |
Argon |
Asbestos |
Asbestos fibers |
Brass and bronze |
Copper, zinc, tin |
Cadmium |
Cadmium |
Copper |
Copper |
Caulking Compound |
Various |
Contact Cement |
Toluene, xylene, 1,1,1-Trichloroethane |
Concrete |
Various |
Diesel fuel |
Petroleum hydrocarbons |
Dynamite |
Nitroglycerine |
Epoxy Resins |
Various |
Epoxy Hardeners |
Various |
Explosion byproducts |
Nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide |
Fiber glass |
Glass fibers |
Freon |
Chlorofluorocarbons |
Galvanized metal |
Zinc |
Gasoline |
Petroleum hydrocarbons |
Grinding wheels |
Aluminum oxide dusts |
Iron |
Iron |
Lead |
Lead |
Monel |
Nickel, copper |
Nitrogen |
Nitrogen |
Nuisance dusts |
Titanium dioxide, etc. |
Motor Oil |
Heated petroleum oil |
Oxygen |
Oxygen |
Paint - oil - based |
Various |
Pavement sealer |
Coal tar |
Polyester resins |
Various |
Portland Cement |
Calcium and aluminum silicates |
PVC pipe Cement |
Ketones, tetrahydrofuran |
Sand blast sand |
Crystalline silica |
Sewer line sealer |
Acrylamide |
Steel (carbon) |
Iron |
Steel (alloy) |
Manganese |
Steel (high nickel) |
Nickel |
stainless |
Nickel, chromium |
Transformer oil |
Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs) |
Urethanes |
Isocyanates |
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