ADR hazard number 558

Hazard identification number 558 on the orange plate: strongly oxidizing (fire-intensifying) substance that is also corrosive.

Printed in the upper half of the orange-coloured plate above the UN number, 558 identifies a strongly oxidizing (fire-intensifying) substance that is also corrosive. A repeated figure means that hazard is intensified.

Digit by digit
5oxidizing effect: the substance intensifies fire
5repeated 5: doubling a figure means that hazard (oxidizing effect) is intensified
8corrosive

Note. Number and meaning pairing checked against a second text extraction of the list.

Refers to: 5.3.2.3.1; 5.3.2.2.3; Table A column (20).

Carried by 1 Table A entry

UN 1873

Source: ADR 2025 (ECE/TRANS/352), Volume II, section 5.3.2.3.2, 558, page 268.

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