EPA TRI Facility · Primary Metals
Buddy Bar Casting
South Gate, CA
- Total releases
- 2 lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 2
- Carcinogens
- 1
- Primary pathway
- Air Releases
AIR Form-R mix
Buddy Bar Casting: how the 2 lbs splits
2 lbs across all reported pathways
- Air Releases 2 lbs 100.0%
Buddy Bar Casting's 2 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: Aluminum (fume or dust).
TRACE volume AIR pathway CLEAN
Buddy Bar Casting is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in South Gate, CA, in the primary metals sector. It reported 2 lbs of releases across 1 chemical in 2022, and 2 lbs in total across its 2020-2022 reporting years. That ranks 19,422 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In California's 1,149 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Buddy Bar Casting is pounds #1034 and chemical-count #738 at 2 lbs. Clean Harbors Buttonwillow LLC leads reported pounds (50.4M lbs) at 45 chemicals (chemical-count #2). Chevron Products Co Richmond Refinery leads chemical count at 46 chemicals (3.0M lbs, pounds #13). Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Saputo Cheese USA Inc; Hughes Bros Aircrafters Inc; Techni-Cast Corp; Rockview Dairies Inc. Similar-scale Primary Metals peers outside California: Umicore Optical Materials USA Inc.; Indium Corp of America; Reliable Castings Corp Sidney Div; Accu-Cast Inc. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Aluminum (fume or dust); Lead.
Buddy Bar Casting stamps TRACE volume with a dominant AIR pathway (100.0% air releases) across 2 chemicals · 1 carcinogen-classified. Cumulative Form-R extract: 2 lbs (2020–2022). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Umicore Optical Materials USA Inc. and Indium Corp of America.
Buddy Bar Casting vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
2 lbs 25th percentile higher than 25% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
Each bar is a $1M-wide band; taller bars hold more reporting TRI facilities. The dashed line and filled bar mark this facility. Hover, focus, or tap a bar for its full count, share, and position.
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Buddy Bar Casting in the Primary Metals sector extract
Among the 1,603 Primary Metals facilities in this database, Buddy Bar Casting reports the 1,390th-largest volume (2 lbs). Scale peers outside California include Umicore Optical Materials USA Inc. and Indium Corp of America.
Sector rank uses reported TRI pounds only. Share callouts need ≥1,000 lbs so tiny totals cannot mint a false signal.
Buddy Bar Casting Form-R facts
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How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Buddy Bar Casting releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 2 lbs.
Emissions Trend Summary
Buddy Bar Casting: annual Form-R pounds
TRACE site · AIR pathway · TRI years 2020–2022
- 2020 0
- 2021 0
- 2022 0
What this shows Buddy Bar Casting year-over-year reported totals. 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: Aluminum (fume or dust).
| Year | Total | Chemicals |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 0 lbs | 2 |
| 2021 | 0 lbs | 1 |
| 2022 | 2 lbs | 1 |
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2020–2022). 1 of 2 chemicals are carcinogens. Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Aluminum (fume or dust) | 2 lbs | - |
| Lead | 0 lbs | Carcinogen |
Buddy Bar Casting · AIR-pathway site
Nearest TRI Facilities to Buddy Bar Casting
Closest other reporters in California - including Saputo Cheese USA Inc, Hughes Bros Aircrafters Inc, Techni-Cast Corp, ordered by distance.
Showing 8 of 1,148 other reporting facilities in California.
Similar Primary Metals Facilities
Other Primary Metals facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside California - e.g. Umicore Optical Materials USA Inc., Indium Corp of America, Reliable Castings Corp Sidney Div.
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 Aluminum (fume or dust), Lead; nearby reporters include Saputo Cheese USA Inc. Buddy Bar Casting 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.
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This Buddy Bar Casting TRI extract (TRACE · AIR · CLEAN · lead Aluminum (fume or dust)) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Buddy Bar Casting totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for South Gate, CA, latest year 2022. Form-R rows span 2020–2022 (3 years). NAICS 331524 · Primary Metals. 0.0% of Los Angeles TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Alco Manufacturing Corp LLC (Δ 0 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Buddy Bar Casting stamps TRACE volume · AIR pathway · CLEAN · lead Aluminum (fume or dust). 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