Facility detail

HIRSH INDUSTRIES INC

1ST & NEW YORK AVE, DES MOINES, IA, 50314

Parent company: NA

Carcinogen — EPA classifications across all reporting years

Year-over-year total releases

Reported on-site TRI releases in pounds (lbs), grouped by reporting year.

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 Xylene (mixed isomers) n-Butyl alcohol Ethylbenzene Certain glycol ethers sec-Butyl alcohol Total (lbs)
2003 — — — — 34,633 34,633
2002 — — — — 52,978 63,178
2000 12,700 — — — — 12,700
1999 26,097 — — — — 26,097
1998 46,315 10,111 — — 10,815 67,241
1997 87,000 20,280 13,800 13,670 12,880 147,630
1996 213,340 60,500 45,630 62,020 1,410 428,680
1995 208,525 62,857 47,276 — — 367,031
1994 4 4 4 — — 20
1993 224,000 58,000 48,700 58,000 — 479,600
1992 201,000 59,000 45,000 59,000 — 440,200
1991 167,000 52,300 37,000 34,400 — 318,300
1990 213,000 50,000 45,200 33,800 — 342,000
1989 226,000 50,000 34,900 25,100 — 336,000
1988 249,000 44,900 — — — 293,900

▎ 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.