Air Toxics at School 2022
School Info
School PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND Street 175 N BEACON ST City WATERTOWN State MA Number of students 171 Student % minority 36% Data Source PSS (private schools)
Air Toxics Info
Number of facilities affecting school 160 Number of chemicals affecting school 70 Toxic percentile nationwide (1=worst) 49th Toxic rank nationwide (1=worst) 62,456 Toxic percentile statewide (1=worst) 49th Toxic rank statewide (1=worst) 1,211 Toxic Hazard 706.71
This school's air toxic concentration is 0.15 times the national average at schools.
This school's air toxic concentration is 0.72 times the state average at schools.
Top 5 facilities
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Top chemicals
Chemical Toxic Hazard
Cobalt 243.03
Chromium 171.85
Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region of South Africa and the unreacted ore component of the chromite ore processing residue (COPR). COPR is the solid waste remaining after aqueous extraction of oxidized chromite ore that has been combined with soda ash and kiln roasted at approximately 2,000 F.) 148.65
Trichloroethylene 35.98
Ethylene oxide 31.11
Nickel 16.19
Nickel compounds 16.02
Chloroform 13.67
Lead 9.56
Diisocyanates 5.44
Cadmium compounds 4.93
Benzene 4.53
Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate 0.90
Polycyclic aromatic compounds 0.90
Zinc compounds 0.70
Toluene diisocyanate (mixed isomers) 0.69
Formaldehyde 0.67
Antimony compounds 0.31
Naphthalene 0.25
Chlorine 0.23
Ethylbenzene 0.14
Xylene (mixed isomers) 0.13
Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) 0.13
Copper 0.12
Triethylamine 0.10
Hydrogen fluoride (Hydrofluoric acid) 0.07
Lead compounds 0.07
Certain glycol ethers 0.04
Hydrogen cyanide 0.04
Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) 0.04
Nitric acid 0.04
Dichloromethane (Methylene chloride) 0.03
N,N-Dimethylformamide 0.03
Acetonitrile 0.02
Ammonia (includes anhydrous ammonia and aqueous ammonia from water dissociable ammonium salts and other sources; 10 percent of total aqueous ammonia is reportable under this listing) 0.01
Toluene 0.01
1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene 0.01
n-Hexane (Hexane) 0.01
Silver compounds 0.01
Toluene-2,4-diisocyanate 0.01
Cyanide compounds 0.01
o-Xylene 0.01
Pyridine 0.00
Copper compounds (this category does not include copper phthalocyanine compounds that are substituted with only hydrogen, and/or chlorine, and/or bromine.) 0.00
Ethylene glycol 0.00
Manganese 0.00
Aluminum (fume or dust) 0.00
Phenol 0.00
Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)) 0.00
Methyl tert-butyl ether 0.00
Methyl methacrylate 0.00
Methanol 0.00
Mercury 0.00
Silver 0.00
Cyclohexane 0.00
Benzo[g,h,i]perylene 0.00
Propylene oxide 0.00
Styrene 0.00
Vinyl acetate 0.00
3-Iodo-2-propynyl butylcarbamate 0.00
Formic acid 0.00
Sodium nitrite 0.00
n-Butyl alcohol (1-Butanol) 0.00
Methyl isobutyl ketone 0.00
Cumene 0.00
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) 0.00
Benzoyl peroxide 0.00
N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone 0.00
Tetrabromobisphenol A 0.00
Nonylphenol Ethoxylates 0.00
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Top 5 chemicals from facilities
Facility Parent Company Chemical Toxic Hazard
TECOMET Charlesbank Capital Partners Cobalt 202.40
CERTAINTEED LLC Saint-Gobain Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region of South Africa and the unreacted ore component of the chromite ore processing residue (COPR). COPR is the solid waste remaining after aqueous extraction of oxidized chromite ore that has been combined with soda ash and kiln roasted at approximately 2,000 F.) 148.25
GE AVIATION General Electric Chromium 87.08
TECOMET Charlesbank Capital Partners Chromium 51.59
BOYD CORP INC. Goldman Sachs Trichloroethylene 35.98
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