Rankings · Hazardous waste violations

Hazardous waste violations in the United States

• 84,799Handlers ranked
• 491,031Total violations

The ten largest of the 84,799 handlers in the United States that report this figure — the hazardous waste handlers with the most violations on record in the federal handler register. A handler that does not report the figure is not ranked here, so the count above is the population this ordering covers, not every handler on file.

Top ten by hazardous waste violations

1. PETRO-CHEM PROCESSING GROUP OF NORTRU LLC Detroit 680 violations
2. US DEPT OF ENERGY HANFORD FACILITY Richland 531 violations
3. CHEMOURS CHAMBERS WORKS Deepwater 348 violations
4. CLEAN HARBORS EL DORADO, LLC El Dorado 329 violations
5. EQ DETROIT INC Detroit 297 violations
6. VALICOR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES LLC Inkster 271 violations
7. CLEAN HARBORS ARAGONITE, LLC Aragonite 267 violations
8. ENVIROSAFE SERVICES OF OHIO INC Oregon 258 violations
9. CHEMICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC. Emelle 255 violations
10. ROSS INCINERATION SERVICES INC Grafton 255 violations

By state

• Florida 8,586
• New York 5,048
• California 4,993
• Michigan 4,775
• Ohio 3,696
• Pennsylvania 3,540
• Massachusetts 3,136
• Wisconsin 2,892
• Texas 2,879
• Minnesota 2,625
• Missouri 2,569
• Indiana 2,418
• Virginia 2,386
• New Jersey 2,112
• Louisiana 1,839
• Kansas 1,822
• Tennessee 1,815
• Alabama 1,773
• Illinois 1,643
• North Carolina 1,600
• South Carolina 1,402
• Georgia 1,370
• Iowa 1,260
• Washington 1,200
• Connecticut 1,152
• West Virginia 1,116
• Oregon 1,007
• Kentucky 987
• Oklahoma 907
• New Mexico 882
• Maryland 861
• Colorado 851
• Nevada 820
• Rhode Island 726
• Wyoming 696
• Vermont 649
• Arizona 641
• Nebraska 598
• District of Columbia 568
• Arkansas 550
• Montana 491
• Puerto Rico 483
• Maine 455
• Delaware 415
• Mississippi 393
• Utah 376
• New Hampshire 358
• Hawaii 348
• Idaho 333
• North Dakota 309
• Alaska 243
• South Dakota 100
• Guam 43
• U.S. Virgin Islands 26
• Northern Mariana Islands 18
• NN 11

Figures as filed with the agency that collects them: EPA’s ECHO downloads and CMS provider files.