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The size limit

Beyond the table

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The table is a ceiling on one container. It says nothing about how many.

The cabinet limit

"Not more than 60 gallons of Category 1, 2, or 3 flammable liquids, nor more than 120 gallons of Category 4 flammable liquids may be stored in a storage cabinet."

Which is a different kind of limit

Table H-12 caps one container and this caps an aggregate. A shop can be compliant on every bottle and over the limit in the cupboard they are kept in.

Quantities outside a cabinet

Are limited too, elsewhere in 1910.106, and the limits depend on the occupancy and the construction. That is a building question rather than a packaging one.

The fire code sits on top

Adopted locally, often stricter, and enforced by somebody who will come and look. Satisfying the federal standard is not the end of the question.

And state plans can be stricter again

A number of states run their own occupational safety plans with their own requirements. Designing to the federal text is a floor.

Your insurer may be the strictest of all

And is the one most likely to ask for specifics in writing. A storage arrangement that satisfies the regulation and voids the policy is not a good outcome.

What we are not telling you

How much you may keep, where the cabinet goes, what ventilation it needs, or whether your arrangement passes. Those are determinations for the authority having jurisdiction.

What we are telling you

The capacity of a container, its material, and which row of Table H-12 that puts it in. That is the part of the question a packaging supplier can actually answer.

Which is the honest division of labor

A catalog that tells a shop its storage room is compliant is doing something it cannot do. One that tells them a bottle is a pint of glass has given them the fact they needed.

And it is enough to be useful

Most of the failures in this property are a wrong resin, an unspecified liner or a container over the limit. All three are answerable from the catalog.

References

29 CFR 1910.106(d)(3)(i): "Not more than 60 gallons of Category 1, 2, or 3 flammable liquids, nor more than 120 gallons of Category 4 flammable liquids may be stored in a storage cabinet." osha.gov
29 CFR 1910.106(d)(2), Table H-12, maximum allowable size of containers and portable tanks for flammable liquids. Glass or approved plastic: 1 pt for Category 1, 1 qt for Category 2, 1 gal for Categories 3 and 4. Metal other than DOT drums: 1 gal for Category 1, 5 gal for Categories 2 through 4. Safety cans: 2 gal for Category 1, 5 gal thereafter. Metal drums to DOT specification: 60 gal. Approved portable tanks: 660 gal. Paragraph (d)(2)(i) adds that "only approved containers and portable tanks shall be used" and that metal containers meeting the requirements of 49 CFR chapter I "shall be deemed to be acceptable". osha.gov
Written from 29 CFR 1910.106(d)(2) and Table H-12, 29 CFR 1910.1200(f) and Appendix B Table B.6.1, and from the catalog as it stood on 18 October 2026. Nothing here establishes that a container is an approved container for flammable liquid storage, which is a word the regulation uses and our data does not support. Fire codes, state plans and insurers sit on top of all of this.