General Shale Brick Inc.
23 facilities · 15 states · 1.5M lbs total releases
According to the EPA Toxics Release Inventory, General Shale Brick Inc. is the reported parent of 23 Form R facilities across 15 states, disclosing 1.5M lbs of toxic releases. 1 of 86 reported chemicals carry a carcinogen classification in the TRI extract. The heaviest-reporting state by release volume is Alabama (591.7K lbs). Those TRI figures remain self-reported disclosure pounds for General Shale Brick Inc., including carcinogen-flagged substances, not a measured public-health risk score.
Release-over-release change
What changed for General Shale Brick Inc.: EPA TRI 2023 reporting year
Same facilities, both years
-2.7%
22 facilities that filed in 2022 and 2023
Whole inventory
-2.7%
309.5 thousand lb → 301.0 thousand lb, every facility that filed
- General Shale Brick Inc.'s total reported releases fell from 309.5 thousand lb in 2022 to 301.0 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- General Shale Brick Inc.'s off-site transfers rose from 608 lb in 2022 to 1.0 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- General Shale Brick Inc.'s chemicals reported fell from 10 in 2022 to 8 in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- General Shale Brick Inc.'s air releases fell from 308.9 thousand lb in 2022 to 300.0 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
TRI parent disclosure trail
Read General Shale Brick Inc. from filing to facility
Largest Form R sites under this parent: General Shale Brick Inc. - Plant 65; General Shale Brick Inc. - Plant 45; General Shale Brick Inc. - Plant 69; General Shale Brick Inc. - Plant 70. Neighbor parents on the disclosure ladder: Waste Management Inc; Koch Inc.. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Hydrogen fluoride; Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size); Barium And Barium Compounds; Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)); Manganese compounds. Heaviest-reporting states in this extract: Alabama; Texas; Kentucky. Industry labels on the parent rollup: Nonmetallic Mineral Product. Start from those named sites and neighbors rather than a generic parent blurb; pounds stay disclosure, not risk.
Largest Form R sites under this parent: General Shale Brick Inc. - Plant 65; General Shale Brick Inc. - Plant 45; General Shale Brick Inc. - Plant 69; General Shale Brick Inc. - Plant 70. Neighbor parents on the disclosure ladder: Waste Management Inc; Koch Inc.. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Hydrogen fluoride; Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size); Barium And Barium Compounds; Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)); Manganese compounds. Heaviest-reporting states in this extract: Alabama; Texas; Kentucky. Industry labels on the parent rollup: Nonmetallic Mineral Product.
General Shale Brick Inc. ranks #528 of 4,988 slug-merged TRI parents, a smaller disclosed-volume parent relative to the national Form R parent set. General Shale Brick Inc. spans 15 states in this extract, placing it among the broader national TRI parent footprints. General Shale Brick Inc.'s disclosed pounds are spread across 23 facilities, no single site dominates the parent total in this extract.
Parent aggregation for General Shale Brick Inc. follows facility-reported names. Compare the named neighbors (Waste Management Inc; Koch Inc.) before treating rank as a hazard score; TRI stays self-reported and unweighted by toxicity.
Where General Shale Brick Inc. sits among TRI parents
General Shale Brick Inc. sits on a disclosure ladder beside Waste Management Inc and Koch Inc.. Open those parents for a different facility count, state span, and chemical mix.
Higher disclosed volume
- Waste Management Inc · rank #526 · 95.6M lbs
- Koch Inc. · rank #527 · 45.8M lbs
Largest chemicals disclosed by General Shale Brick Inc.
Hydrogen fluoride; Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size); Barium And Barium Compounds; Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)); Manganese compounds lead the Form R pound rollup for this parent, including filings such as General Shale Brick Inc. - Plant 65. Pound totals, not toxicity-weighted risk.
| Chemical | Disclosed lbs |
|---|---|
| Hydrogen fluoride | 1.3M lbs |
| Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 207.6K lbs |
| Barium And Barium Compounds | 1.5K lbs |
| Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)) | 1.3K lbs |
| Manganese compounds | 1.1K lbs |
Where does this company operate?
| State | Facilities | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 1 | 591.7K lbs |
| Texas | 5 | 452.4K lbs |
| Kentucky | 1 | 208.4K lbs |
| Mississippi | 1 | 81.0K lbs |
| North Carolina | 3 | 59.8K lbs |
| Michigan | 1 | 18.5K lbs |
| South Carolina | 1 | 13.9K lbs |
| Oklahoma | 2 | 13.7K lbs |
| Georgia | 2 | 10.2K lbs |
| Pennsylvania | 1 | 6.7K lbs |
| Virginia | 1 | 6.5K lbs |
| Colorado | 1 | 5.4K lbs |
| Ohio | 1 | 4.5K lbs |
| Indiana | 1 | 4.5K lbs |
| Tennessee | 1 | 3.4K lbs |
Facilities (23)
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Compare beyond the release ladder
Nationwide peers by disclosed pounds & facility count
Cross-portfolio TRI parents nearest General Shale Brick Inc. on total disclosed release pounds (1.5M lbs) and reporting facility count (23). Release-volume peers include Great River Energy, Collins Pine Co, Newmarket Corp. Facility-count peers include Air Products & Chemicals Inc, Ardagh Holdings USA Inc, Cardinal Glass Industries. Neighborhoods are forced disjoint so each axis surfaces a different set of parents.
Similar disclosed release pounds
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Similar facility count
Nearest parents by reporting-site count (deduped against the release-pound neighborhood).
About This Data
EPA TRI parent totals cover all media. This extract's heaviest states for the parent are Alabama, Texas, Kentucky; facility-reported names can vary across subsidiaries.
Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, TRI Basic Data Files
What to do with General Shale Brick Inc.'s TRI parent record
From General Shale Brick Inc., open General Shale Brick Inc. - Plant 65 or compare against Waste Management Inc rather than reading rank alone.
- Open the largest Form R site for General Shale Brick Inc. (General Shale Brick Inc. - Plant 65 in AL). Largest facility
- Compare against Koch Inc., the next-higher disclosed-volume parent. Higher-volume parent
- Browse the full parent release ranking to see where General Shale Brick Inc. sits among all slug-merged TRI parents. All parent companies
Rank and peers (Waste Management Inc, Koch Inc.) are disclosure volume only, not toxicity-weighted risk or enforcement status.
Use and verify this record
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Company release figures are computed directly from EPA Toxic Release Inventory data; source names and the record-linking method are documented in the methodology.
Primary sources
- EPA Toxics Release Inventory Basic Data Files - annual facility-level chemical-release disclosures
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