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How many of you keep a binder of MSDS(Material Safety Data Sheets) or SDS (Saftey Data Sheets) for your powder near your reloading bench for "just in case".
 
Just in case what? I ain't gonna eat it, it is gunpowder. If it goes up in flames, I probably won't be taking the time to read an MSDS!

Sheesh, it is a hobby, not a job.
 
iHunter said:
How many of you keep a binder of MSDS(Material Safety Data Sheets) or SDS (Saftey Data Sheets) for your powder near your reloading bench for "just in case".
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Yeah, It's right next to the binder of MSDS/SDS for all the household products. :jerkit:

You never know when you're going to get a glob of Ball cream in the Eye.
 
No disrespect to the OP intended, but the whole business of creating an MSDS for every damn thing out there is way out of hand.

For example, my outfit suggested we remove any MSDS's for products we don't have in our stores, so while removing those from the binder, I ran across an MSDS for the ink stamp pad we have in the office.

Seriously.
 
I disagree, when reloading, safety is the most important thing, gloves, glasses. If something happens, how will your partner know what to do while calling 911.
 
I have seen references to MSDS for folks looking for volumetric conversions on newer powders not listed in publications. I haven't had to go digging for that info personally yet though.

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php/1314688-Smokeless-Powder-Density-Chart

For reloading bench safety, it's hard to beat good 'ol fashioned common sense, or the labels on the container.
 
I work in Health and Safety and deal with WHMIS (now GHS) and MSDS daily. I feel no need to have them printed off or near my bench. Adequate ventilation if using solvents or lube and wear gloves. Don't eat the stuff!

Safety is the most important thing when reloading but common sense and safe storage go a long way.
 
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I disagree, when reloading, safety is the most important thing, gloves, glasses. If something happens, how will your partner know what to do while calling 911.
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If "something" happens? Like what, you swallow a pound of powder? What do you possibly envision happening with gun powder that would require an MSDS? Gunpowder burns, that's about it. Doesn't require an MSDS to sort that issue out. Not to mention that a paper MSDS isn't gonna last long once your powder goes up in flames .... along with the rest of your house.


I once worked in a flour mill and we had an MSDS for flour. The only way flour is dangerous to w worker's health is if a 2000 lb pallet falls on his head.
 
My powder's MSDS tells me the dangers of:
Shooting into space
Driving with NR in the front seat
Storing NR in my trunk
Bear spray
Upcoming legislation

What's with the threads the last few days. Lots of trolling IMHO
 
Mr.Crumbz said:
I work in Health and Safety and deal with WHMIS (now GHS) and MSDS daily. I feel no need to have them printed off or near my bench. Adequate ventilation if using solvents or lube and wear gloves. Don't eat the stuff!
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Volunteer firefighter with some hazmat training(the boring classroom kind), it's near nuts to even think of keeping an msds for powder. There's a hundred worse things in the home.

People are weird.
 
And I am still wondering what that "something" is that could happen to me. No, really, in fifty years of reloading, I have never had a hankering to ingest gunpowder. Not even once. I really try not to contaminate my powder by handling it, in the true sense of "Handling." As in, I keep my gooey fingers off it, and pour powder through funnels, measures and tricklers, and do not "trickle" powder by trying to squeeze a few grains out between my fingers! Can't imagine inhaling deeply and forcefully enough to actually vacuum powder back up off a scale pan or out of an open case. If I ever do, I expect my asthma will have me coughing so hard I won't absorb much dissolved nitro or graphite! I don't bath in it, nor plunge my arms into it, I just mechanically transfer it from can to measure to either scale pan or case, depending, and then I go shoot it!!

I do realize that if I had a heart condition -I don't - and if I suddenly stopped using a nitroglycerin based powder, I could run the risk of SCA, as did a whole bunch of Norma's employees when they closed down a factory with a whole bunch of old guy employees. So I will keep on using powder and keep on reloading.

In the meantime, instead of trying to conjure some non-existent danger from being in the same room as an open can of powder, I will refrain from smoking while reloading, and I will bloody well read the label, the manual, the scale setting, and cross-check twice before I load a case. Inadvertent booboos in handloading come from mistaking one powder for another, or mis-adjusting the case. Advertent booboos come from ignoring book maximums, in pursuit of meaningless boasts.
 
I believe personal safety is paramount. For real-live use of commodities, a manual/training for such is is the "how to". MSDS seems to be more of a "workplace " issue. If one were to go through the entire process of achieving an ammunition manufacturing status it would behove the employer to provide MSDS to employees.

I'm the only one at my bench. I accept full responsibility for everything on it.
 
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