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Skull and crossbones

GHS06

GHS06 — Skull and crossbones (Acute toxicity (severe))
Code
GHS06
Symbol
Skull and crossbones
Hazard grouping
Acute toxicity (severe)
Hazard classes
  • Acute toxicity — oral, dermal, or inhalation (Cat 1, 2, 3)
Signal word
DangerAlways Danger. Lower acute toxicity (Cat 4) uses the exclamation mark (GHS07) instead.

Reference only. Not legal or regulatory advice. Verify against the primary source before you act.

Look this pictogram up

GHS Pictogram Guide shows all nine pictograms with the hazard classes each one covers.

Sources

Hazard-class mapping per UN GHS (Rev 7+), OSHA HCS 2012+, EU CLP and WHMIS 2015

Pictogram artwork from an MIT-licensed set (github.com/karlnorling/ghs-hazard-pictograms) with canonical UNECE and Wikimedia derived geometry. The signal word is category dependent and is recorded per pictogram.

Data vintage

Data: GHS hazard pictograms, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), 9 pictograms.