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49 CFR Ch. I (10–1–18 Edition) 

§ 172.504 

The exceptions provided in paragraph 
(c) of this section do not prohibit the 
display of placards in the manner pre-
scribed in this subpart, if not otherwise 
prohibited (see § 172.502), on transport 
vehicles or freight containers which 
are not required to be placarded. 

(d) 

Exception for empty non-bulk pack-

ages. 

Except for hazardous materials 

subject to § 172.505, a non-bulk pack-
aging that contains only the residue of 
a hazardous material covered by Table 
2 of paragraph (e) of this section need 
not be included in determining 
placarding requirements. 

(e) 

Placarding tables. 

Placards are 

specified for hazardous materials in ac-
cordance with the following tables: 

T

ABLE

Category of material (Hazard class or division number 

and additional description, as appropriate) 

Placard name 

Placard de-

sign section 

reference 

(§ ) 

1.1 ....................................................................................

EXPLOSIVES 1.1 ............................................................

172.522 

1.2 ....................................................................................

EXPLOSIVES 1.2 ............................................................

172.522 

1.3 ....................................................................................

EXPLOSIVES 1.3 ............................................................

172.522 

2.3 ....................................................................................

POISON GAS ..................................................................

172.540 

4.3 ....................................................................................

DANGEROUS WHEN WET ............................................

172.548 

5.2 (Organic peroxide, Type B, liquid 

or 

solid, tempera-

ture controlled).

ORGANIC PEROXIDE ....................................................

172.552 

6.1

(material poisonous by inhalation (see § 171.8 of 

this subchapter)).

POISON INHALATION HAZARD ....................................

172.555 

7 (Radioactive Yellow III label only) ................................

RADIOACTIVE

1

..............................................................

172.556 

1

RADIOACTIVE placards are also required for: All shipments of unpackaged LSA–I material or SCO–I; all shipments required 

by §§ 173.427, 173.441, and 173.457 of this subchapter to be operated under exclusive use; and all closed vehicles used in ac-
cordance with § 173.443(d). 

T

ABLE

Category of material (Hazard class or division number 

and additional description, as appropriate) 

Placard name 

Placard de-

sign section 

reference 

(§ ) 

1.4 ....................................................................................

EXPLOSIVES 1.4 ............................................................

172.523 

1.5 ....................................................................................

EXPLOSIVES 1.5 ............................................................

172.524 

1.6 ....................................................................................

EXPLOSIVES 1.6 ............................................................

172.525 

2.1 ....................................................................................

FLAMMABLE GAS ..........................................................

172.532 

2.2 ....................................................................................

NON-FLAMMABLE GAS .................................................

172.528 

3 .......................................................................................

FLAMMABLE ...................................................................

172.542 

Combustible liquid ...........................................................

COMBUSTIBLE ...............................................................

172.544 

4.1 ....................................................................................

FLAMMABLE SOLID .......................................................

172.546 

4.2 ....................................................................................

SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUSTIBLE ..............................

172.547 

5.1 ....................................................................................

OXIDIZER ........................................................................

172.550 

5.2 (Other than organic peroxide, Type B, liquid or 

solid, temperature controlled).

ORGANIC PEROXIDE ....................................................

172.552 

6.1

(other than material poisonous by inhalation) ........

POISON ...........................................................................

172.554 

6.2 ....................................................................................

(None).

8 .......................................................................................

CORROSIVE ...................................................................

172.558 

9 .......................................................................................

Class 9 (see § 172.504(f)(9)) ..........................................

172.560 

ORM-D ............................................................................

(None) ..............................................................................

....................

(f) 

Additional placarding exceptions. 

(1) 

When more than one division placard is 
required for Class 1 materials on a 
transport vehicle, rail car, freight con-
tainer or unit load device, only the 
placard representing the lowest divi-
sion number must be displayed. 

(2) A FLAMMABLE placard may be 

used in place of a COMBUSTIBLE 
placard on— 

(i) A cargo tank or portable tank. 

(ii) A compartmented tank car which 

contains both flammable and combus-
tible liquids. 

(3) A NON-FLAMMABLE GAS 

placard is not required on a transport 
vehicle which contains non-flammable 
gas if the transport vehicle also con-
tains flammable gas or oxygen and it is 
placarded with FLAMMABLE GAS or 
OXYGEN placards, as required. 

(4) OXIDIZER placards are not re-

quired for Division 5.1 materials on 

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