H332Harmful if inhaled

The GHS hazard statement for acute toxicity, inhalation, category 4. Here is what it means, the label elements that travel with it, and the substances that carry it.

AT A GLANCE · OFFICIAL STATEMENT
Harmful if inhaled.
HAZARD CLASS
Acute toxicity, inhalation
CATEGORY
Category 4
SIGNAL WORD
Warning

What it means

Serious harm from breathing the substance — as gas, vapor, dust, or mist — over a single short exposure. Categories are set from acute toxicity estimates (ATE) per GHS Chapter 3.1.

Precautionary statements paired with H332

When the engine writes SDS Section 2 or a container label for a product carrying H332, these are the P-codes it assigns, in the official Annex 3 groups:

Substances that carry H332

311 of the 4,228 substances in our database carry H332 when classified in pure form — recognizable examples:

hydrogen peroxide solution
CAS 7722-84-1
xylene
CAS 1330-20-7
styrene
CAS 100-42-5
acetonitrile
CAS 75-05-8
SAME HAZARD CLASS:H330H331H333

Reference information, not legal or professional advice. Statement texts and allocations follow GHS Rev 9 / 29 CFR 1910.1200 Appendix C as implemented by our classification engine; the regulatory text and agency practice control. Claims last reviewed July 23, 2026.

The engine writes these for you.

When SDS HQ authors an SDS or a container label, it assigns the hazard statements, signal word, pictograms, and precautionary statements from these same tables — automatically, with the calculation shown.