Wear self-contained breathing apparatus. Wear full protective equipment. This compound is a skin, eye, nose and throat irritant. It can cause allergic skin rashes. Inhalation can cause coughing, sneezing, nausea, headache and weakness.
Ingestion can cause dizziness, headache, confusion, incoordination and loss of consciousness.
The compound is a skin irritant, is a moderate eye irritant, and is a skin sensitizer in animals. Repeated exposures caused slightly increased red blood cell counts. Single and long term dermal exposure resulted in irritation. Toxicity described in animals administered lethal oral doses include weakness, labored and irregular respiration, drop in arterial blood pressure, and coma. The compound does produce genetic damage in mammalian cell cultures but has not been tested in animals.