Cleveland SSE-25-L Installation, Operation And Repair Manual page 29

PRODUCT: ETHYLENE GLYCOL
SUPPLIER: Harrisons & Crosfield (Canada) Ltd.
777 Supertest Road,
Downsview, Ontario, M3J 2M5
Phone (416) 736 9299, Telex 06-524509
Emergency Phone (416) 667 8074
SYNONYMS: Glycol; EG; MEG; 1, 2 ethanediol
CHEMICAL NAME: Ethylene glycol
CHEMICAL FAMILY: Glycols
CHEMICAL FORMULA: HOC2H4CH
SHIPPING NAME:
CLASSIFICATION: Not regulated
Ingredient
Ethylene glycol
THRESHOLD LIMIT VALUE: Vapour - 50 ppm. Paniculate - 10 mg/m3
EFFECTS OF OVEREXPOSURE:
EYES: Liquid, vapours, and particularly mists, may cause discomfort in the eye with transient conjunctivitis.
Serious corneal injury is not anticipated.
SKIN: slightly irritating.
INHALATION: May cause irritation of the throat and headache. High vapour concentrations caused, for
example, by heating the material in an enclosed and poorly ventilated workspace may produce nausea,
headache, and dizziness.
INGESTION: May cause abdominal discomfort and pain (dizziness, malaise, lumbar pain, oliguria, uraemia,
and central nervous system depression. Severe kidney damage follows the swallowing of large volumes of
ethylene glycol. May be fatal.
CHRONIC HEALTH HAZARDS: Inhalation of mists may produce signs of effects on the central nervous
system, particularly dizziness and nystagmus.
OTHER HEALTH HAZARDS: Ethylene glycol has been shown to produce dose-related teratogenic effects in rats and
mice when given by gavage or drinking water at high concentrations. There is no available information to
suggest that it has caused birth defects in humans. Two chronic feeding studies, using rats and mice have not
produced any evidence that ethylene glycols causes dose-related increases in tumour incidence, or a different
pattern of tumours compared with untreated controls. The absence of a carcinogenic potential for ethylene
glycol has been supported by numerous in vitro genotoxicity studies showing it does not produce mutagenic or
clastogenic effects.
HARRISONS & CROSFIELD (CANADA) LTD.
MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEET
I. IDENTIFICATION
P.I.N.:
II. HAZARDOUS INGREDIENTS
III. HEALTH HAZARDS
DATE: 24 October 1986
C.A.S. NUMBER: 107-21-1
PACKING GROUP:
Range % TLV (ppm)
100 Vapor-50 ppm