Hazard Classes
DOT Hazard Class 4 refers to these types of materials.
What are Flammable Solids?
All packages spec'd to ship DOT Hazardous Materials are indicated by this symbol.
What is a UN symbol?
What is Flammable Liquids, NOS.
What is the Identification Number?
NOS in a shipping name stands for this.
What is Not Otherwise Specified?
What is DOT Hazard Class Division 4.3, Dangerous When Wet.
A bulk package has a maximum capacity greater than this many gallons for a liquid.
What is 119 gallons?
The shipping name "Mercury" falls into this primary DOT Hazard Class.
What is DOT Hazard Class 8?
A hazmat load requires a placard when it reaches this aggregate weight of hazardous materials.
What is greater than or equal to 1,001 lbs of hazardous materials?
Most hazardous materials Identification numbers begin with UN, which stands for United Nations. There are some that begin with NA, which stands for this.
What is North America?
A flammable liquid is a liquid with a flash point of not more than this degree Fahrenheit.
What is 141 F?
These three potential letter ratings on a package correspond with the Packing Group of the material being shipped.
What are X, Y and Z-ratings?
This Shipping Name is preceded by UN2810.
What is Toxic, Liquids, Organic, NOS?
What is 2,205 lbs or more?
Hazardous Materials shipped via air are governed by this set of regulations.
What is IATA? (International Air Transport Association)
A material with an LD50 <300 mg/kg would fall into this DOT Hazard Class Division.
What is DOT Division 6.1?
In a package specification, this letter code would indicate that the construction of the package is fiber or fiberboard.
What is G?
There are four types of shipping names in the DOT Hazardous Materials Table, with the most descriptive being the one used. These types include Technical Name, Chemical Use or Application, Generic NOS, and this fourth type.
What is Chemical Family? Alcohols, Ketons, aldehydes, etc.
A bulk package may be marked with a bulk placard, or alternatively using this.
What is an orange panel with ID numbers?
The Emergency Response Guidebook is updated every _______ years.
What is Four years.
Materials in this DOT Hazard Class Division are regulated largely due to the physical hazard they present as opposed to any particular chemical hazard.
What is DOT Hazard Class Division 2.2, Non-Flammable Gas.
When preparing a hazardous materials package for shipment, the shipper must follow these to ensure the package is compliant and will not rupture or leak during transport.
What are Closure Instructions?
What is Corrosive Liquids, NOS?
These are the placard(s) that would be required for this load:
250 lbs Class 3; 1250 lbs of Class 6.1, 800 lbs of Class 8, 25 lbs of Class 4.3
What is Dangerous and 4.3, or what is Class 3, Class 6.1, Class 8 and Class 4.3?
The lab pack exception (and other exceptions), which allows shippers to package different materials in the same primary hazard class and ship them under a generic shipping name can be found here in the regulations.
What is 49 CFR 173.12?