STAMEX EC

SECTION 2: Hazards identification

Keep affected person warm and at rest. Treat symptomatically and supportively. Administration of Toxicity class: oxygen should be performed by qualified personnel. Get WHO II medical attention immediately. ADI: Not available Skin contact: Main Hazard: Remove contaminated clothing immediately. Wash contaminated areas with soap and water followed by alcohol. Emergency personnel should wear gloves and avoid contamination. Treat respiratory difficulty with Fire hazard when exposed to heat or flame. Vapour mechanical artificial respiration. Get medical attention mixtures may ignite or explode. immediately. Extinguishing agents: Eye contact: Extinguish small fires with carbon dioxide, dry powder, or Flush eyes immediately with large amounts of gently alcohol-resistant foam. Water spray as a fog can be used flowing cold water or normal saline solution, occasionally for cooling of unaffected stock, but avoid water coming in lifting upper and lower lids, until no evidence of chemical contact with the product. Contain water used for fire remains (approximately 15 to 20 minutes). If irritation fighting for later disposal. Avoid the accumulation of persists, get medical attention. polluted run-off from the site. Ingestion: Fire fighting: If person is alert and respiration is not depressed, give Move containers from fire area if possible. Fight fire from syrup of Ipecac followed by water ( if vomiting occurs, keep maximum distance. Stay away from storage tank ends. head below hips to prevent aspiration). If consciousness Contain fire control water for later disposal. Do not scatter level declines or vomiting has not occurred in 15 minutes material, extinguish only if flow can be stopped. Use empty stomach by gastric lavage with the aid of cuffed flooding amounts of water as a fog, solid streams may be endotracheal tube using isotonic saline or 5 % ineffective. Cool containers with flooding amounts of water sodium bicarbonate follow with activated charcoal. as far a distance as possible. Use water spray to absorb Establish and maintain airway. Treat respiratory difficulty toxic vapours. Avoid inhaling hazardous vapours. Keep with artificial respiration and oxygen. upwind. Do not give morphine, aminophylline, phenothiazines, Special Hazards: reserpine, furosemide, or ethacrynic acid. Fire may produce irritating or poisonous vapours, mists or Pralidoxime (2-PAM, Protopam) and other oximes are other products of combustion. contra-indicated. .THEY SHOULD NOT BE USED. Personal protective equipment: Treat symptomatically and supportively. Qualified medical Fire fighters and others that may be exposed should wear personnel must perform administration of oxygen and full protective clothing and self-contained breathing gastric lavage. Get medical attention immediately. apparatus. Contact with the fumes and vapours should be Advice to physician: avoided by staying upwind. Clean all clothing before re- Antidote: use. Severely contaminated clothing cannot be Establish clear airway and tissue oxygenation by adequately decontaminated, and must be disposed as a aspiration of secretions, and if necessary, by assisted hazardous waste. Shower with soap and water after pulmonary ventilation with oxygen. Administer atropine contact with this product. sulphate intravenously or intramuscularly if iv injection is not possible. In moderately severe poisoning administer 6. ACCIDENTAL RELEASE MEASURES (SPILLAGE) atropine sulphate, 0.4 to 2.0 mg repeated every 15 minutes, until atropinisation is achieved (tachycardia, Personal precautions: flushing, dry mouth, mydriasis). Maintain atropinisation by Do not inhale fumes. Avoid contact with skin, eyes or repeated doses for 2-12 hours, or longer, depending on clothes. Ventilate area of spill or leak, especially confined the severity of poisoning. Severely poisoned individuals areas. For personal protection refer Section 8. may exhibit remarkable tolerance to atropine. Two or more Environmental precautions: times the dosages suggested above may be needed. Do not allow entering drains or watercourses. Spillage or Observe treated patients closely at least 24 hours to uncontrolled discharges into water courses (or public ensure that symptoms (possibly pulmonary oedema) do waters) to be reported immediately to the Police and to the not recur as atropinisation wears off. In very severe Department of Water/Environmental Affairs. poisonings, metabolic disposition of toxicant may require Occupational spill: several hours or days during which atropinisation must be Keep out unprotected persons and animals. Do not touch maintained. Markedly lower levels of urinary metabolites or walks through spilled material; stop leak if you can do it indicate that atropine dosage can be tapered off. As without risk. Earth all equipment used when handling the dosage is reduced, check the lung bases frequently for product. Avoid runoff of product into sewers, water rales. If rales are heard or other symptoms return, re- systems, basements or confined areas as it may cause establish atropinisation promptly. fire/explosion. Vapour-suppressing foam could be used to reduce vapours. Thoroughly wash body areas, which 5. FIRE FIGHTING MEASURES come into contact with the product. For spills: Use clean, non-sparking tools to collect Flammable properties: absorbed material. Soak up with absorptive material such Flammable: Flash point: 23 OC as damp earth or sand or other suitable non-combustible Fire and explosion hazard: absorbent material. Place the material into a clean, dry container and cover for subsequent disposal. In situations PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT: where product comes in contact with water, contain If engineering controls and work practices are not effective contaminated water for later disposal. Prevent material in controlling exposure to this material, then wear suitable from spreading by damming in with absorptive material. personal equipment including approved respiratory Do not flush spilled material into drains. Keep spectators protection. away and upwind. Respirator: To decontaminate spill area, tools and equipment, wash An approved full-face air-purifying respirator, equipped with a suitable solution (i.e. organic solvent, detergent with organic vapour cartridges or canisters, suitable for bleach or caustic). Add the solution to the drums already protection from mists of pesticides is required. Limitations collected. Label drums with its content and dispose it in of respirator use specified by the approving agency and accordance with local regulations. the manufacturer must be observed. Open burning or dumping of this material is prohibited. Clothing: Employee must wear appropriate protective (impervious) 7. HANDLING AND STORAGE REQUIREMENTS clothing (long sleeved cotton overalls, apron, rubber boots, face shield and hat or cap) and equipment to prevent skin