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SECTION 2: Hazards identification

Emergency Overview ***: Flammable liquid and vapors. Harmful by inhalation, in contact with skin, and if swallowed. Contact with eyes or skin causes irritation. Effects Of Overexposure - Eye Contact: Exposure to liquid, aeroso!, or vapors may cause irritation, tearing, redness, and swelling accompanied by a stinging sensation. Contact with eyes may cause irritation. Contact may cause excessive blinking and tear production, burns to the cornea, or excessive redness and swelling to the conjunctiva. Also, eye contact may cause the eye to have pain and discomfort. Effects Of Overexposure - Skin Contact: Direct skin contact may cause irritation. Symptoms may include swelling, redness, and rash. Prolonged or repeated skin contact may cause dermatitis, drying, and defatting due to the solvent properties. May cause allergic skin reaction. Contact may cause redness, increased pigmentation of the skin, or discomfort. May cause severe skin irritation. Effects Of Overexposure - Inhalation: Inhalation may cause irritation to the respiratory tract (nose, mouth, mucous membranes) & acute nervous system depression characterized by the following progressive steps: headache, dizziness, staggering gait, confusion, unconsciousness, or coma. Exposure may cause drowsiness. Inhalation may cause headaches, difficult breathing, and loss of consciousness. Overexposure to METHYL NORMAL PROPYL KETONE, a component of this formulation, has been suggested as a cause of mild, reversible effects on the livers and kidneys of laboratory animals. A component may form methanol vapors in the Jungs. Methanol vapors may cause numbness, shooting pains, and tingling, in the hands and forearms. Methanol vapors may also cause disturbances of vision, dizziness, and drowsiness. Effects Of Overexposure - Ingestion: Ingestion may cause gastrointestinal irritation, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. May result in possible corrosive action in the mouth, stomach tissue, and digestive tract. Vomiting may cause aspiration of the solvent, resulting in chemical pneumonitis. Harmful or fatal if swallowed. Lung inflammation or other lung injury may occur if methyl n-propyl ketone enters the lungs through vomiting or swallowing. Ingesting of a component may lead to the formation of methanol in the stomach. Methanol may cause damage to the muscle in the heart, liver, and kidneys. Methanol may also cause shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting, cramps, weakness, fatigue, dizziness, confusion, visual disturbances, eye damage, blindness, restlessness, drunken behavior, abdominal pain, drowsiness, headache, coma, and death. Effects Of Overexposure - Chronic Hazards: Prolonged contact will cause drying and cracking of the skin, due to defatting action. Repeated or prolonged contact causes sensitization, asthma, and eczemas. Repeated or prolonged contact with the preparation may cause removal of natural fat from the skin resulting in non-allergic contact dermatitis and absorption through the skin. Symptoms of overexposure may occur for up to 48 hours after the original exposure occurred. Exposure to METHYL NORMAL PROPYL KETONE, a component of this formulation, has been found to cause kidney damage in male rats. The mechanism by which this toxicity occurs is specific to the male rat and the kidney effects are not expected to occur in humans. Methyl n-propy! ketone, a component of this formulation, has been shown MSDS Number: 02GNO089CAT MIL-PRF-23377J-TYPEI-CLASS C1 CATALYST Page 2 of 5 to cause harm to the fetus in labortory animal studies. Harm to the fetus occurs only at exposure levels that harm the pregnant animal. The relevance of these findings to humans is uncertain.

Principle Routes of Exposure

Skin Contact, Inhalation, Eye Contact