EPA TRI Facility · Fabricated Metals
Truenorth Steel - Rapid City
Rapid City, SD
- Total releases
- 79 lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 2
- Carcinogens
- 1
- Primary pathway
- Air Releases
AIR Form-R mix
Truenorth Steel - Rapid City: how the 79 lbs splits
79 lbs across all reported pathways
- Air Releases 70 lbs 88.5%
- Off-site Transfers 9 lbs 11.5%
Truenorth Steel - Rapid City's 79 lbs Form-R total is AIR - air releases is 88.5% of the bar. Next segment: off-site transfers at 11.5%. Leading chemical by pounds: Polycyclic aromatic compounds.
TRACE volume AIR pathway CARC-HEAVY
Truenorth Steel - Rapid City is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Rapid City, SD, in the fabricated metals sector. It reported 79 lbs of releases across 2 chemicals in 2019. That ranks 16,781 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In South Dakota's 92 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Truenorth Steel - Rapid City is pounds #67 and chemical-count #61 at 79 lbs. Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp - Sioux Falls leads reported pounds (21.3M lbs) at 4 chemicals (chemical-count #33). Hydro Extrusion USA LLC leads chemical count at 12 chemicals (223.2K lbs, pounds #13). Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Gcc Dacotah; Pete Lien & Sons Inc; Forterra Concrete Products - Rapid City; Midwest Manufacturing Inc DBA Dakota Panel. Similar-scale Fabricated Metals peers outside South Dakota: Kice Industries Inc; Paradigm Precision Holdings LLC; West Town Plating Inc; Nhk Spring Precision of America. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Polycyclic aromatic compounds; Benzo[g,h,i]perylene.
Truenorth Steel - Rapid City stamps TRACE volume with a dominant AIR pathway (88.5% air releases) across 2 chemicals · 1 carcinogen-classified. Cumulative Form-R extract: 79 lbs (2019–2019). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Kice Industries Inc and Paradigm Precision Holdings LLC.
Truenorth Steel - Rapid City vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
79 lbs 35th percentile higher than 35% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Truenorth Steel - Rapid City in the Fabricated Metals sector extract
Among the 3,421 Fabricated Metals facilities in this database, Truenorth Steel - Rapid City reports the 2,231st-largest volume (79 lbs). Scale peers outside South Dakota include Kice Industries Inc and Paradigm Precision Holdings LLC.
Sector rank uses reported TRI pounds only. Share callouts need ≥1,000 lbs so tiny totals cannot mint a false signal.
Truenorth Steel - Rapid City Form-R facts
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How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Truenorth Steel - Rapid City releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 79 lbs.
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2019–2019). 1 of 2 chemicals are carcinogens. Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 72 lbs | Carcinogen |
| Benzo[g,h,i]perylene | 7 lbs | - |
Truenorth Steel - Rapid City · AIR-pathway site
Nearest TRI Facilities to Truenorth Steel - Rapid City
Closest other reporters in South Dakota - including Gcc Dacotah, Pete Lien & Sons Inc, Forterra Concrete Products - Rapid City, ordered by distance.
Showing 8 of 91 other reporting facilities in South Dakota.
Similar Fabricated Metals Facilities
Other Fabricated Metals facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside South Dakota - e.g. Kice Industries Inc, Paradigm Precision Holdings LLC, West Town Plating 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 Polycyclic aromatic compounds, Benzo[g,h,i]perylene; nearby reporters include Gcc Dacotah. Truenorth Steel - Rapid City stamps TRACE volume · AIR pathway · CARC-HEAVY 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 Truenorth Steel - Rapid City TRI extract (TRACE · AIR · CARC-HEAVY · lead Polycyclic aromatic compounds) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Truenorth Steel - Rapid City totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Rapid City, SD, latest year 2019. NAICS 332312 · Fabricated Metals. 0.0% of Pennington TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Kice Industries Inc (Δ 0 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Truenorth Steel - Rapid City stamps TRACE volume · AIR pathway · CARC-HEAVY · lead Polycyclic aromatic 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