Praxair, Inc (the "Company") filed its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year-ended December 31, 2008 ("2008 10-K") on February 25, 2009. As a participant in the Securities and Exchange Commission's XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) voluntary filing program, attached as Exhibit 100 to this Current Report on Form 8-K are the following financial statements from the Company's 2008 10-K, formatted in XBRL, excluding the notes to the financial statements: (i) Consolidated Statements of Income, (ii) Consolidated Balance Sheets, (iii) Consolidated Statements of Cash Flow, and (iv) Consolidated Statement of Shareholders' Equity.

Users of this data are advised pursuant to Rule 401 of Regulation S-T that the information contained in the XBRL documents is unaudited and these are not the official publicly filed financial statements of the Company. The purpose of submitting these XBRL formatted documents is to test the related format and technology and, as a result, investors should continue to rely on the official filed version of the furnished documents and not rely on this information in this Current Report on Form 8-K, including Exhibit 100, in making investment decisions.

Due to the way the SEC's Interactive Data Viewer renders the XBRL data, additional time periods are being presented in the Consolidated Statement of Shareholders' Equity. The additional time periods are not populated with the complete financial data for those periods. Users of the XBRL documents should focus only on the data for the years ended December 31, 2008, 2007 and 2006 which agrees to the data filed in the company's 2008 10-K.

In accordance with Rule 402 of Regulation S-T, the information in this Current Report on Form 8-K, including Exhibit 100, shall not be deemed to be "filed" for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), or otherwise subject to the liability of that section, and shall not be incorporated by reference into any registration statement or other document filed under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.

(d) Exhibits.

Exhibit No.      Description
100              The following financial statements from Praxair, Inc's Annual
                 Report on Form 10-K for the year-ended December 31, 2008, filed on
                 February 25, 2009, formatted in XBRL: (i) Consolidated Statements
                 of Income, (ii) Consolidated Balance Sheets, (iii) Consolidated
                 Statements of Cash Flow, (iv) Consolidated Statements of
                 Shareholders' Equity