Silica: A Hazardous Desiccant

We were exposed to millions of times the OSHA Daily Allowable Limit of Silica without any respirators or breathing apparatuses. Every safety data sheet I found for the same product made by different manufacturers was basically screaming to get people away from it if they breathe it. You're going to get like diseases only miners get, dude. Only miners and particularly poorly managed mines. Yeah. We were never told that this material could be dangerous. It took me at least a week of internet sleutery and searching individual serial numbers to get anywhere.