EPA TRI Facility · Electrical Equipment
Ge Drives & Controls
Salem, VA · Parent: General Electric Co (ge Co)
- Total releases
- 27 lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 2
- Latest report
- 2019
- Primary pathway
- Off-site Transfers
OFFSITE Form-R mix
Ge Drives & Controls: how the 27 lbs splits
27 lbs across all reported pathways
- Off-site Transfers 24 lbs 88.1%
- Water Discharges 2 lbs 9.0%
- Air Releases 1 lbs 3.0%
Ge Drives & Controls's 27 lbs Form-R total is OFFSITE - off-site transfers is 88.1% of the bar. Next segment: water discharges at 9.0%. Leading chemical by pounds: Lead And Lead Compounds.
TRACE volume OFFSITE pathway CLEAN
Ge Drives & Controls is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Salem, VA, in the electrical equipment sector. It reported 27 lbs of releases across 2 chemicals in 2019. That ranks 17,733 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In Virginia's 434 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Ge Drives & Controls is pounds #345 and chemical-count #290 at 27 lbs. U.S. Army Radford Army Ammunition Plant leads reported pounds (50.1M lbs) at 12 chemicals (chemical-count #15). Axalta Coating Systems USA Llc-Front Royal Plant leads chemical count at 28 chemicals (244.6K lbs, pounds #59). Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Virginia LLC; Lake Region Medical Inc; Graham-White Manufacturing Co.; Boxley Materials Company Roanoke Ready Mix Plant. Similar-scale Electrical Equipment peers outside Virginia: Nidec Motor Corp Princeton; Contact Technologies Inc; Amphenol Spectra Strip; Schneider-Square D Field Service. Other General Electric Co (ge Co) sites in this extract: Ge Aerospace Plant 2; Ge Aerospace Auburn; Lm Wind Power Blades (usa) Inc; Ge Aerospace Plant 1. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Lead And Lead Compounds; Copper.
Ge Drives & Controls stamps TRACE volume with a dominant OFFSITE pathway (88.1% off-site transfers) across 2 chemicals. Cumulative Form-R extract: 27 lbs (2019–2019). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Nidec Motor Corp Princeton and Contact Technologies Inc.
Ge Drives & Controls vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
27 lbs 32nd percentile higher than 32% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Ge Drives & Controls in the Electrical Equipment sector extract
Among the 566 Electrical Equipment facilities in this database, Ge Drives & Controls reports the 382nd-largest volume (27 lbs). Scale peers outside Virginia include Nidec Motor Corp Princeton and Contact Technologies Inc.
Sector rank uses reported TRI pounds only. Share callouts need ≥1,000 lbs so tiny totals cannot mint a false signal.
Ge Drives & Controls Form-R facts
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How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Ge Drives & Controls releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 27 lbs.
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2019–2019). Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Lead And Lead Compounds | 22 lbs | - |
| Copper | 5 lbs | - |
Ge Drives & Controls · OFFSITE-pathway site
Nearest TRI Facilities to Ge Drives & Controls
Closest other reporters in Virginia - including Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Virginia LLC, Lake Region Medical Inc, Graham-White Manufacturing Co., ordered by distance.
Showing 8 of 433 other reporting facilities in Virginia.
Similar Electrical Equipment Facilities
Other Electrical Equipment facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside Virginia - e.g. Nidec Motor Corp Princeton, Contact Technologies Inc, Amphenol Spectra Strip.
Other General Electric Co (ge Co) Facilities
Same-parent TRI sites ranked by reported releases - including Ge Aerospace Plant 2, Ge Aerospace Auburn, Lm Wind Power Blades (usa) 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, Copper; nearby reporters include Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Virginia LLC. Ge Drives & Controls stamps TRACE volume · OFFSITE 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 Ge Drives & Controls TRI extract (TRACE · OFFSITE · CLEAN · lead Lead And Lead Compounds) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Ge Drives & Controls totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Salem, VA, latest year 2019. NAICS 335314 · Electrical Equipment. 0.3% of Salem (city) TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Oldcastle Precast Inc (Δ 0 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Ge Drives & Controls stamps TRACE volume · OFFSITE pathway · CLEAN · 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