Year-over-year total releases
Reported on-site TRI releases in pounds (lbs), grouped by reporting year.
Facility detail
NUCOR STEEL GALLATIN LLC
US HWY 42 W, WARSAW, KY, 41095
Parent company: NUCOR CORP
Carcinogen
PBT
— EPA classifications across all reporting years
Top chemical totals
The 10 chemicals with the highest cumulative on-site releases in pounds (lbs) across all available years.
Full release table
Rows are years. Columns show the five highest-total chemicals across all years plus each year's total release volume.
| All values in pounds (lbs) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Zinc compounds | Zinc (fume or dust) | Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | Polycyclic aromatic compounds | Manganese compounds | Total (lbs) |
| 2024 | 5,974 | — | 12,846 | 1 | 845 | 20,293 |
| 2023 | 3,233 | — | — | 2 | — | 4,366 |
| 2022 | 6,250 | — | — | 0 | — | 8,048 |
| 2021 | 5,734 | — | — | 993 | 619 | 7,909 |
| 2020 | 6,083 | — | — | 125 | — | 7,455 |
| 2019 | 6,215 | — | — | 4,324 | 701 | 11,867 |
| 2018 | 541 | — | — | — | 307 | 1,435 |
| 2017 | 471 | — | — | 1,563 | 312 | 2,925 |
| 2016 | 465 | — | — | 1,284 | 312 | 2,634 |
| 2015 | 2,802 | — | — | 352 | 469 | 4,058 |
| 2014 | 4,429 | — | — | — | 471 | 5,454 |
| 2013 | 3,834 | — | — | — | 527 | 4,710 |
| 2012 | 2,617 | — | — | — | — | 3,406 |
| 2011 | 3,311 | — | — | — | — | 4,192 |
| 2010 | 3,597 | — | — | — | — | 4,386 |
| 2009 | 3,569 | — | — | — | — | 4,306 |
| 2008 | 76 | — | — | — | — | 742 |
| 2007 | 6,930 | — | — | — | — | 8,182 |
| 2006 | — | 6,800 | — | — | — | 8,036 |
| 2005 | 6,855 | — | — | — | 762 | 7,682 |
| 2004 | 6,790 | — | — | — | 760 | 8,000 |
| 2003 | 6,782 | — | — | — | 757 | 7,972 |
| 2002 | 2,184 | — | — | — | 248 | 2,623 |
| 2001 | 275 | — | — | — | 410 | 788 |
| 2000 | 394 | — | — | — | 396 | 902 |
| 1999 | 298 | — | — | — | 400 | 793 |
| 1998 | 457 | — | — | — | 175 | 802 |
| 1997 | 577 | — | — | — | 136 | 886 |
| 1996 | 28,036 | — | — | — | — | 30,318 |
| 1995 | — | 9,600 | — | — | — | 10,415 |
▎ Facilities report to EPA's TRI once they manufacture, process, or use a listed chemical above set thresholds. Once that threshold is crossed, they must report actual releases regardless of size — so a small number reflects genuine low-level discharge, not a data error.