EPA TRI Facility · Transportation Equipment
Wabtec Railway Electronics
Germantown, MD · Parent: Wabtec Corp
- Total releases
- 41 lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 2
- Carcinogens
- 1
- Primary pathway
- Air Releases
AIR Form-R mix
Wabtec Railway Electronics: how the 115 lbs splits
115 lbs across all reported pathways
- Air Releases 115 lbs 100.0%
Wabtec Railway Electronics's 115 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: Lead And Lead Compounds.
TRACE volume AIR pathway CARC-LEAN
Wabtec Railway Electronics is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Germantown, MD, in the transportation equipment sector. It reported 74 lbs of releases across 1 chemical in 2024, and 41 lbs in total across its 2019-2024 reporting years. That ranks 17,394 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In Maryland's 152 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Wabtec Railway Electronics is pounds #113 and chemical-count #100 at 41 lbs. Darling Ingredients Inc.- Linkwood Facility leads reported pounds (9.1M lbs) at 4 chemicals (chemical-count #37). Brandon Shores & Wagner Complex leads chemical count at 27 chemicals (560.1K lbs, pounds #9). Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Rockville Ready Mix Concrete; Genon Mid Atlantic LLC Dickerson Generating Station; Schuster Concrete Ready Mix Llc-Southlawn Ln; Lafarge Mid Atlantic LLC -Rockville East Concrete. Similar-scale Transportation Equipment peers outside Maryland: Seats Inc; Maxion Wheels - Akron Operations LLC; Voestalpine Railway Systems Nortrak Inc.; Novae LLC - Cam Superline. Other Wabtec Corp sites in this extract: Railroad Friction Products Corp; Aero Transportation Products Inc; Sancast Inc; Wabtec Components. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Lead And Lead Compounds; Lead.
Wabtec Railway Electronics stamps TRACE volume with a dominant AIR pathway (100.0% air releases) across 2 chemicals · 1 carcinogen-classified. Cumulative Form-R extract: 41 lbs (2019–2024). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Seats Inc and Maxion Wheels - Akron Operations LLC.
Wabtec Railway Electronics vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
41 lbs 33rd percentile higher than 33% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Wabtec Railway Electronics in the Transportation Equipment sector extract
Among the 1,603 Transportation Equipment facilities in this database, Wabtec Railway Electronics reports the 1,181st-largest volume (41 lbs). Scale peers outside Maryland include Seats Inc and Maxion Wheels - Akron Operations LLC.
Sector rank uses reported TRI pounds only. Share callouts need ≥1,000 lbs so tiny totals cannot mint a false signal.
Wabtec Railway Electronics 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 Wabtec Railway Electronics releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 115 lbs.
Emissions Trend Summary
From 2019 to 2024, total releases increased by 18400% (0 lbs to 74 lbs).
Wabtec Railway Electronics: annual Form-R pounds
TRACE site · AIR pathway · TRI years 2019–2024
- 2019 0
- 2020 0
- 2021 0
- 2022 0
- 2023 0
- 2024 0
What this shows Wabtec Railway Electronics year-over-year reported totals (increased by 18400% from 2019 to 2024). 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: Lead And Lead Compounds.
| Year | Total | Chemicals |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 0 lbs | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 lbs | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 lbs | 1 |
| 2022 | 17 lbs | 1 |
| 2023 | 23 lbs | 1 |
| 2024 | 74 lbs | 1 |
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2019–2024). 1 of 2 chemicals are carcinogens. Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Lead And Lead Compounds | 114 lbs | - |
| Lead | 1 lbs | Carcinogen |
Wabtec Railway Electronics · AIR-pathway site
Nearest TRI Facilities to Wabtec Railway Electronics
Closest other reporters in Maryland - including Rockville Ready Mix Concrete, Genon Mid Atlantic LLC Dickerson Generating Station, Schuster Concrete Ready Mix Llc-Southlawn Ln, ordered by distance.
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Similar Transportation Equipment Facilities
Other Transportation Equipment facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside Maryland - e.g. Seats Inc, Maxion Wheels - Akron Operations LLC, Voestalpine Railway Systems Nortrak Inc..
Other Wabtec Corp Facilities
Same-parent TRI sites ranked by reported releases - including Railroad Friction Products Corp, Aero Transportation Products Inc, Sancast 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 Lead And Lead Compounds, Lead; nearby reporters include Rockville Ready Mix Concrete. Wabtec Railway Electronics stamps TRACE volume · AIR pathway · CARC-LEAN 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 Wabtec Railway Electronics TRI extract (TRACE · AIR · CARC-LEAN · lead Lead And Lead Compounds) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Wabtec Railway Electronics totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Germantown, MD, latest year 2023. Form-R rows span 2019–2024 (6 years). NAICS 336999 · Transportation Equipment. 0.2% of Montgomery TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Cs-Ma LLC DBA Construction Service (Δ 0 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Wabtec Railway Electronics stamps TRACE volume · AIR pathway · CARC-LEAN · lead Lead And Lead Compounds. 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