General Shale Brick INC Plant 42
Total reported releases 1k lb rose meaningfully year over year (+20%). Total releases concentrations are up 81% since 2017.
241 HOYAL LN, Spring City, Tennessee · 327120 · Nonmetallic Mineral Product · operated by General Shale Brick INC
Notable Signals
No notable signals at this facility for the current reporting year. See chemicals and equity context below for the full picture.
What This Facility Releases
Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size)
Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) concentrations are up 27% since 2017.
Hydrogen fluoride
Hydrogen fluoride concentrations have more than doubled since 2016.
Lead
Lead concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2023.
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Rhea County County, TN (no Census block groups within 3 miles — falling back to containing county): a population of 33,031. Why we surface this →
Low-income
People of color
Under age 5
Over age 64
Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 (5-year), county-level fallback. 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.