Hazardous materials -- materials, substances or wastes that may be toxic, harmful or fatal to the environment, humans or animals that are accidentally exposed to them.
Please circle each type of hazardous materials that applies to your operation.
Please specify whether these materials are carried or shipped and whether they are
packaged in bulk or not.
Hazardous materials fall into several categories:
Explosives -- any substance or article that is designed to function by explosion.
Flammable Gas -- any material which is a gas at 20 °C (68 °F) or less and 101.3 kPa (14.7 psi) of pressure.
Non-flammable, nonpoisonous compressed gas -- includes compressed gas, liquefied gas, pressurized cryogenic gas, compressed gas in solution, asphyxiant gas and oxidizing gas.
Poison Gas -- A gas that is poisonous by inhalation.
Flammable Liquid -- Liquids having a flash point of not more than 60.5 °C (141 °F), or any material in a liquid phase with a flash point at or above 37.8 °C (100 °F) that is intentionally heated and transported at or above its flash point in a bulk package.
Combustible liquid -- Any liquid that does not meet the definition of any other hazard class and has a flash point above 60.5 °C (141 °F) and below 93 °C (200 °F).
Flammable solids -- Include any of the following: de-sensitized explosives, self-reactive materials, and readily combustible solids.
Spontaneously Combustible Material -- These are pyrophoric and self-heating materials.
Dangerous-when-wet material -- Materials that, by contact with water, can become spontaneously flammable or to give off flammable or toxic gas.
Oxidizer -- A material that may, generally by yielding oxygen, cause or enhance the combustion of other materials.
Organic peroxide -- Any organic compound containing oxygen which may be considered a derivative of hydrogen peroxide, where one or more of the hydrogen atoms have been replaced by organic radicals.
Infectious substance (etiologic agent) -- Includes a viable microorganism, or its toxin, that causes or may cause disease in humans or animals, and any other agent that causes or may cause severe, disabling or fatal disease. Also, human or animal material such as blood components, tissue, and tissue fluids being shipped for purposes of diagnosis.
Highway route controlled quantity of radioactive) material.
Radioactive material -- Materials having a specific activity greater than 70
Bq per gram (0.002 microcurie per gram.
Corrosive material -- Any liquid or solid that destroys human skin at the site of contact within a specified period of time.
Miscellaneous hazardous materials -- Present a hazard during transportation but do not meet the definition of any other hazard class.
Elevated temperature materials -- When or transported in bulk, they are in a liquid phase and at a temperature at or above 100 °C (212 °F) or in a solid phase and at a temperature at or above 240 °C (464 °F).
Hazardous substance -- Any material, including its mixtures and solutions, that
meets definition in 49 CFR 171.8 of a reportable quantity of a hazardous substance.
Marine pollutants -- Materials are listed in appendix B to the Code of Federal
Regulations Transportation (49) Part 172.101 (also see Part 171.4.
Other regulated materials -- Include consumer commodities which, although subject to the regulations of this subchapter, present a limited hazard during transportation due to form, quantity and packaging.
