Question about arsenic content in wood, help please?

Question

Until 2003, arsenic was applied to lumber to dispell termites.

Today, someone was sawing through long, wooden blocks to create smaller blocks to use to stabilize and secure some heavy machinery. While they were doing this, I was seperated by a single wall, a door, and a couple of windows. Then later, I had to give that same individual a ride in my truck, wherein many of the wood chips clinging to their clothing abraded off and into the seat of my truck. I have no idea how old the wood was. Was arsenic ever even applied to such types of wood, or was that only for the lumber meant for decks and things? And if indeed any arsenic was applied to this wood, could I have had any exposure to it or breathed in it, as a result of the situations delineated above?

Answer 1

The amount you MAY have been exposed to would be far too little to do you any harm at all.

Answer 2

forget it unless u cut treated wood every day...worry about something else...like lack of new oil drilling in the USA

Answer 3

Arsenic is a good poison. They only started it about 20 years ago. It can be bad for U to breath in the sawdust.  Normally a nurse mask is adequate.in years past small amounts of arsenic was used for heart treatment. If U don't have any heart problems U are all right.