EPA TRI Facility · Transportation Equipment
Freightcar Alabama
Cherokee, AL · Parent: Freightcar America Inc.
- Total releases
- 500 lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 1
- Latest report
- 2020
- Primary pathway
- Air Releases
AIR Form-R mix
Freightcar Alabama: how the 500 lbs splits
500 lbs across all reported pathways
- Air Releases 500 lbs 100.0%
Freightcar Alabama's 500 lbs Form-R total is AIR - air releases is 100.0% of the bar. Off-site transfers stay separate from air, water, and land releases. Leading chemical by pounds: Manganese.
TRACE volume AIR pathway CLEAN
Freightcar Alabama is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Cherokee, AL, in the transportation equipment sector. It reported 250 lbs of releases across 1 chemical in 2020, and 500 lbs in total across its 2019-2020 reporting years. That ranks 14,805 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In Alabama's 559 reporting TRI sites, Chemical Waste Management leads both reported pounds (95.6M lbs) and chemical count (98 chemicals). The two rankings do not invert in this pool. Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Essity Professional Hygiene Na Barton Operations; Messer LLC; Lsb Chemical LLC; Flexco Corp. Similar-scale Transportation Equipment peers outside Alabama: Pcc Airfoils Llc/eastlake; Wyman Gordon Tru-Form; St Engineering Hackney Inc; Umicore Autocat USA Inc. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Manganese.
Freightcar Alabama stamps TRACE volume with a dominant AIR pathway (100.0% air releases) across 1 chemical. Cumulative Form-R extract: 500 lbs (2019–2020). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Pcc Airfoils Llc/eastlake and Wyman Gordon Tru-Form.
Freightcar Alabama vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
500 lbs 43rd percentile higher than 43% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Freightcar Alabama in the Transportation Equipment sector extract
Among the 1,603 Transportation Equipment facilities in this database, Freightcar Alabama reports the 951st-largest volume (500 lbs). Scale peers outside Alabama include Pcc Airfoils Llc/eastlake and Wyman Gordon Tru-Form.
Sector rank uses reported TRI pounds only. Share callouts need ≥1,000 lbs so tiny totals cannot mint a false signal.
Freightcar Alabama Form-R facts
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Comparison reflects reported pounds and chemical counts, not toxicity or health risk. Averages cover facilities reporting any release.
How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Freightcar Alabama releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 500 lbs.
Emissions Trend Summary
From 2019 to 2020, total releases held roughly flat (250 lbs to 250 lbs).
Freightcar Alabama: annual Form-R pounds
TRACE site · AIR pathway · TRI years 2019–2020
- 2019 0
- 2020 0
What this shows Freightcar Alabama year-over-year reported totals (held roughly flat from 2019 to 2020). TRI figures are self-reported estimates and can swing with production, waste handling, and reporting changes, not only with controls. Lead chemical in the extract: Manganese.
| Year | Total | Chemicals |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 250 lbs | 1 |
| 2020 | 250 lbs | 1 |
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2019–2020). Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Manganese | 500 lbs | - |
Freightcar Alabama · AIR-pathway site
Nearest TRI Facilities to Freightcar Alabama
Closest other reporters in Alabama - including Essity Professional Hygiene Na Barton Operations, Messer LLC, Lsb Chemical LLC, ordered by distance.
Showing 8 of 558 other reporting facilities in Alabama.
Similar Transportation Equipment Facilities
Other Transportation Equipment facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside Alabama - e.g. Pcc Airfoils Llc/eastlake, Wyman Gordon Tru-Form, St Engineering Hackney Inc.
About TRI Data
Data as of 2023 reporting year. Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Toxic Release Inventory.
On this page the largest disclosed chemicals include Manganese; nearby reporters include Essity Professional Hygiene Na Barton Operations. Freightcar Alabama stamps TRACE volume · AIR pathway · CLEAN carcinogen-lbs on this Form-R extract. Totals are self-reported estimates under EPCRA §313, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score.
Use and verify this record
This Freightcar Alabama TRI extract (TRACE · AIR · CLEAN · lead Manganese) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Freightcar Alabama totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Cherokee, AL, latest year 2020. Form-R rows span 2019–2020 (2 years). NAICS 336510 · Transportation Equipment. 0.0% of Colbert TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Airgas Specialty Products Inc - Lyons Ny (Δ 0 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Freightcar Alabama stamps TRACE volume · AIR pathway · CLEAN · lead Manganese. PlainEnviro renders this EPA Form-R extract from its pipeline; no figure is typed in by an editor. Corrections: editorial policy.
All federal data sources used on this page
- EPA Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Basic Data Files - annual self-reported chemical-release filings. epa.gov
- EPA TRI Program reference - how chemicals and reported releases are counted. epa.gov
- EPA Facility Registry Service - facility location and identity. epa.gov
- EPA ECHO - regulatory and compliance context. epa.gov
- EPA Envirofacts - the EPA data warehouse exposing these datasets. epa.gov