EPA TRI Facility · Transportation Equipment
Thomas Built Buses Inc
High Point, NC · Parent: Daimler Trucks N.a. LLC
- Total releases
- 603 lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 4
- Carcinogens
- 2
- Primary pathway
- Air Releases
AIR Form-R mix
Thomas Built Buses Inc: how the 603 lbs splits
603 lbs across all reported pathways
- Air Releases 601 lbs 99.5%
- Off-site Transfers 3 lbs 0.5%
- Land Disposal 0 lbs <0.1%
Thomas Built Buses Inc's 603 lbs Form-R total is AIR - air releases is 99.5% of the bar. Next segment: off-site transfers at 0.5%. Leading chemical by pounds: Manganese.
TRACE volume AIR pathway CARC-LEAN
Thomas Built Buses Inc is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in High Point, NC, in the transportation equipment sector. It reported 126 lbs of releases across 4 chemicals in 2023, and 603 lbs in total across its 2019-2023 reporting years. That ranks 14,532 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In North Carolina's 787 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Thomas Built Buses Inc is pounds #457 and chemical-count #220 at 603 lbs. Befesa Zinc Metal LLC leads reported pounds (43.1M lbs) at 4 chemicals (chemical-count #158). Pcs Phosphate Co Inc leads chemical count at 29 chemicals (22.9M lbs, pounds #2). Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Axalta Coating Systems USA LLC - High Point; Piedmont Chemical Industries I LLC; Ennis-Flint Inc - High Point Facility; Innospec Active Chemicals. Similar-scale Transportation Equipment peers outside North Carolina: Modine Manufacturing Co; Textron Aviation/mccauley Facility; Federal-Mogul Sevierville; Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia Inc. Other Daimler Trucks N.a. LLC sites in this extract: Daimler Trucks Na Llc-Cleveland; Thomas Built Buses Inc; Daimler Trucks Na LLC; Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Manganese; Nickel; Lead; Ethylene glycol.
Thomas Built Buses Inc stamps TRACE volume with a dominant AIR pathway (99.5% air releases) across 4 chemicals · 2 carcinogen-classified. Cumulative Form-R extract: 603 lbs (2019–2023). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Modine Manufacturing Co and Textron Aviation/mccauley Facility.
Thomas Built Buses Inc vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
603 lbs 44th percentile higher than 44% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Thomas Built Buses Inc in the Transportation Equipment sector extract
Among the 1,603 Transportation Equipment facilities in this database, Thomas Built Buses Inc reports the 920th-largest volume (603 lbs). Scale peers outside North Carolina include Modine Manufacturing Co and Textron Aviation/mccauley Facility.
Sector rank uses reported TRI pounds only. Share callouts need ≥1,000 lbs so tiny totals cannot mint a false signal.
Thomas Built Buses Inc 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 Thomas Built Buses Inc releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 603 lbs.
Emissions Trend Summary
From 2019 to 2023, total releases decreased by 7% (135 lbs to 126 lbs).
Thomas Built Buses Inc: 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 Thomas Built Buses Inc year-over-year reported totals (decreased by 7% 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 | 135 lbs | 4 |
| 2020 | 111 lbs | 4 |
| 2021 | 111 lbs | 4 |
| 2022 | 121 lbs | 4 |
| 2023 | 126 lbs | 4 |
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2019–2023). 2 of 4 chemicals are carcinogens. Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Manganese | 567 lbs | - |
| Nickel | 36 lbs | Carcinogen |
| Lead | 1 lbs | Carcinogen |
| Ethylene glycol | 0 lbs | - |
Thomas Built Buses Inc · AIR-pathway site
Nearest TRI Facilities to Thomas Built Buses Inc
Closest other reporters in North Carolina - including Axalta Coating Systems USA LLC - High Point, Piedmont Chemical Industries I LLC, Ennis-Flint Inc - High Point Facility, ordered by distance.
Showing 8 of 786 other reporting facilities in North Carolina.
Similar Transportation Equipment Facilities
Other Transportation Equipment facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside North Carolina - e.g. Modine Manufacturing Co, Textron Aviation/mccauley Facility, Federal-Mogul Sevierville.
Other Daimler Trucks N.a. LLC Facilities
Same-parent TRI sites ranked by reported releases - including Daimler Trucks Na Llc-Cleveland, Thomas Built Buses Inc, Daimler Trucks Na LLC.
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, Nickel, Lead, Ethylene glycol; nearby reporters include Axalta Coating Systems USA LLC - High Point. Thomas Built Buses Inc 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 Thomas Built Buses Inc TRI extract (TRACE · AIR · CARC-LEAN · lead Manganese) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Thomas Built Buses Inc totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for High Point, NC, latest year 2023. Form-R rows span 2019–2023 (5 years). NAICS 336211 · Transportation Equipment. 0.0% of Guilford TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Heartland Asphalt Materials (Δ 0 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Thomas Built Buses Inc stamps TRACE volume · AIR pathway · CARC-LEAN · 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