PERI: Toxic 100 Index

Nucor

Rank in Toxic 100: 61
Rank among all TRI companies: 103
Air releases 2020 (lbs): 497,194
Incineration transfers 2020 (lbs): 12,496
Total Air and Incineration Toxic Score 2020: 547,521
Percentage of national total 2020 toxic air and incineration score: 0.2%
EJ: Poor Share: 22%
EJ: Minority Share: 44%

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This company is rank 66 on the Toxic 100 Water list.
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Chemical	Air releases (lbs)	Incineration transfers (lbs)	Toxic Score (quantity x exposure x toxicity x population)	Percent of total company score	EJ: Poor Share	EJ: Minority Share
Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region of South Africa and the unreacted ore component of the chromite ore processi	7,330	0	405,667	74.09%	23.7%	47.9%
Chromium	241	0	74,074	13.53%	16.0%	22.1%
Nickel compounds	2,338	0	40,643	7.42%	19.9%	44.9%
Manganese compounds	29,632	0	13,589	2.48%	21.8%	52.5%
Nickel	117	0	3,837	0.70%	16.5%	23.1%
Lead compounds	5,247	0	2,655	0.48%	25.1%	60.8%
Cadmium compounds	56	0	2,305	0.42%	18.7%	44.1%
Certain glycol ethers	225,439	9,568	1,718	0.31%	23.4%	48.5%
Manganese	2,031	0	1,028	0.19%	16.2%	25.6%
Polycyclic aromatic compounds	374	0	732	0.13%	15.6%	21.1%
Cobalt compounds	2	0	423	0.08%	24.2%	67.4%
Mercury compounds	4,179	0	271	0.05%	14.1%	40.6%
Zinc compounds	93,249	0	203	0.04%	21.2%	52.5%
Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size)	16,777	0	162	0.03%	13.7%	73.7%
Copper compounds (this category does not include copper phthalocyanine compounds that are substituted with only hydrogen, and/or chlorine, and/or brom	2,448	0	79	0.01%	18.1%	45.5%
Naphthalene	1,140	0	45	0.01%	24.0%	36.2%
Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7))	639	0	44	0.01%	15.2%	44.7%
Lead	16	0	20	0.00%	16.1%	29.8%
Dioxin and dioxin-like compounds (Manufacturing; and the processing or otherwise use of dioxin and dioxin like compounds if the dioxin and dioxin like	0	0	15	0.00%	14.7%	38.7%
Xylene (mixed isomers)	18,916	0	3	0.00%	24.8%	37.9%
Nitric acid	382	0	2	0.00%	18.4%	35.4%
Ethylbenzene	553	0	2	0.00%	24.2%	36.4%
Ammonia (includes anhydrous ammonia and aqueous ammonia from water dissociable ammonium salts and other sources; 10 percent of total aqueous ammonia i	81,089	2,928	2	0.00%	14.7%	38.8%
Polychlorinated biphenyls	0	0	2	0.00%	15.2%	49.2%
Barium	25	0	0	0.00%	18.1%	56.6%
1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene	1,602	0	0	0.00%	24.0%	36.0%
Vanadium compounds	118	0	0	0.00%	18.3%	38.2%
Diisocyanates	0	0	0	0.00%	23.6%	38.3%
n-Butyl alcohol (1-Butanol)	1,333	0	0	0.00%	24.2%	36.4%
Copper	7	0	0	0.00%	24.1%	36.4%
Propylene	176	0	0	0.00%	16.8%	23.1%
sec-Butyl alcohol (2-Butanol)	1,736	0	0	0.00%	17.2%	34.9%

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