Zinc (fume or dust)
Zinc (fume or dust) releases at US Steel Corp-Fairfield Works fell from 61k lb to 16k lb (74% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
US Steel Corp-Fairfield Works
Total reported releases 51k lb fell sharply year over year (-50%). Total releases concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
5700 VALLEY RD, Fairfield, Alabama · 331110 · Primary Metals · operated by US Steel CORP
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Notable Signals
Total reported releases
Total reported releases at US Steel Corp-Fairfield Works have more than three-quarters since 2010 (through 2024).
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Manganese
Manganese concentrations have more than doubled since 2020.
Zinc (fume or dust)
Zinc (fume or dust) concentrations have more than halved since 2023.
Chromium
Chromium concentrations have more than doubled since 2017.
Lead
Lead concentrations have more than doubled since 2017.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (54 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 49,602. Why we surface this →
44.9%
Low-income
92.3%
People of color
4.6%
Under age 5
17.7%
Over age 64
Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics, population-weighted across the 3-mile buffer around this facility (from USEPA-clone/EJAM-open blockgroupstats). Indicator-level percentile and EJ-disparity scores are surfaced on the county page and the state page — they describe wider regional exposure burdens, not effects attributable to a single facility.
Source. EPA Toxics Release Inventory · retrieved 2026-05-07. Reporting year 2024. TRI is a federal public-domain dataset under 17 USC §105.
What this is not. TRI quantifies releases reported by the facility under EPCRA §313 — not ambient air or water concentrations measured at receptors. We do not attribute individual health outcomes to specific facilities; that exceeds what the data can support.