EPA TRI Facility · Transportation Equipment
Tower Automotive
Bardstown, KY · Parent: Tower Automotive Operations USA I LLC
- Total releases
- 470 lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 4
- Carcinogens
- 1
- Primary pathway
- Air Releases
AIR Form-R mix
Tower Automotive: how the 470 lbs splits
470 lbs across all reported pathways
- Air Releases 470 lbs 100.0%
Tower Automotive's 470 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 TRACE-CARC
Tower Automotive is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Bardstown, KY, in the transportation equipment sector. It reported 66 lbs of releases across 4 chemicals in 2023, and 470 lbs in total across its 2019-2023 reporting years. That ranks 14,894 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In Kentucky's 422 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Tower Automotive is pounds #335 and chemical-count #175 at 470 lbs. North American Stainless leads reported pounds (35.2M lbs) at 15 chemicals (chemical-count #36). Safety-Kleen Systems Inc. leads chemical count at 50 chemicals (725.8K lbs, pounds #50). Reported volume rose against 2022. Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Inoac Packaging Group; Toyota Boshoku Kentucky L.L.C. - Bardstown; Tower Automotive; Npr of America Corp. Similar-scale Transportation Equipment peers outside Kentucky: Toyota Boshoku Indiana LLC; Arvin Sango Inc; Solero Technologies; Textron Aviation/west Campus. Other Tower Automotive Operations USA I LLC sites in this extract: Tower Automotive Operations USA 1 LLC; Tower Automotive Operations USA I LLC; Tower Automotive. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Manganese; Chromium; Nickel; Copper.
Tower Automotive stamps TRACE volume with a dominant AIR pathway (100.0% air releases) across 4 chemicals · 1 carcinogen-classified. Cumulative Form-R extract: 470 lbs (2019–2023). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Toyota Boshoku Indiana LLC and Arvin Sango Inc.
Tower Automotive vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
470 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
Tower Automotive in the Transportation Equipment sector extract
Among the 1,603 Transportation Equipment facilities in this database, Tower Automotive reports the 960th-largest volume (470 lbs). Scale peers outside Kentucky include Toyota Boshoku Indiana LLC and Arvin Sango Inc.
Sector rank uses reported TRI pounds only. Share callouts need ≥1,000 lbs so tiny totals cannot mint a false signal.
Annual disclosure change
What changed: EPA TRI 2023 reporting year
- Tower Automotive's total reported releases rose from 51 lb in 2022 to 66 lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Tower Automotive's chemicals reported rose from 3 in 2022 to 4 in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Tower Automotive's air releases rose from 51 lb in 2022 to 66 lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
Tower Automotive Form-R facts
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33% more than the comparison
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How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Tower Automotive releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 470 lbs.
Emissions Trend Summary
From 2019 to 2023, total releases decreased by 73% (243 lbs to 66 lbs).
Tower Automotive: annual Form-R pounds
TRACE site · AIR pathway · TRI years 2019–2023
- 2019 0
- 2020 0
- 2021 0
- 2022 0
- 2023 0
What this shows Tower Automotive year-over-year reported totals (decreased by 73% from 2019 to 2023). 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 | 243 lbs | 3 |
| 2020 | 62 lbs | 3 |
| 2021 | 48 lbs | 3 |
| 2022 | 51 lbs | 3 |
| 2023 | 66 lbs | 4 |
Tower Automotive · AIR-pathway site
Nearest TRI Facilities to Tower Automotive
Closest other reporters in Kentucky - including Inoac Packaging Group, Toyota Boshoku Kentucky L.L.C. - Bardstown, Tower Automotive, ordered by distance.
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Similar Transportation Equipment Facilities
Other Transportation Equipment facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside Kentucky - e.g. Toyota Boshoku Indiana LLC, Arvin Sango Inc, Solero Technologies.
Other Tower Automotive Operations USA I LLC Facilities
Same-parent TRI sites ranked by reported releases - including Tower Automotive Operations USA 1 LLC, Tower Automotive Operations USA I LLC, Tower Automotive.
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, Chromium, Nickel, Copper; nearby reporters include Inoac Packaging Group. Tower Automotive stamps TRACE volume · AIR pathway · TRACE-CARC 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 Tower Automotive TRI extract (TRACE · AIR · TRACE-CARC · lead Manganese) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Tower Automotive totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Bardstown, KY, latest year 2023. Form-R rows span 2019–2023 (5 years). NAICS 336370 · Transportation Equipment. 0.8% of Nelson TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Constantia-Colmar Inc (Δ 0 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Tower Automotive stamps TRACE volume · AIR pathway · TRACE-CARC · 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