FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · South Carolina

Hazardous Materials Compliance in South Carolina

• 1,280Violations recorded
• 23,267Registered carriers in the state
• 9,337State inspections addressing it

Packaging, placarding and handling of hazardous materials. South Carolina carries 1,280 violations in this category, out of 42,552 recorded nationally, which places it 6 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.030 as a fraction, banked by the build rather than turned into a ratio here. Nationally, a violation in this category carries an average severity weight of 4.5.

The state’s carriers by fleet size

• 1 power unit 13,760
• 2 to 5 power units 6,263
• 6 to 20 power units 1,449
• 21 to 100 power units 428
• 101 to 1,000 power units 59
• 1,000 or more power units 23

Other categories recorded in South Carolina

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 458
• Crash Indicator 4,716
• Driver Fitness 6,081
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 11,868
• Unsafe Driving 17,217
• Vehicle Maintenance 76,507

Hazardous Materials Compliance across every jurisdiction → Every category in South Carolina →

Figures from the federal source files: EPA’s ECHO downloads, CMS provider files and the FMCSA census.

Counts from FMCSA SMS input files on data.transportation.gov: kjg3-diqy (Motor Carrier Census, 2,122,441 rows), rbkj-cgst (Inspection, 5,834,148), 8mt8-2mdr (Violation, 6,808,260), 4wxs-vbns (Crash, 255,582), p2mt-9ige (Out of Service Orders, 399,600); SoQL aggregates fetched 2026-09-16. The rank is taken over the jurisdictions this desk publishes, and the national figure beside it is the register’s own total for the category.