Air Toxics at School 2022
School Info
School BOSTON UNIVERSITY ACADEMY Street 1 UNIVERSITY RD City BOSTON State MA Number of students 220 Student % minority 49% Data Source PSS (private schools)
Air Toxics Info
Number of facilities affecting school 147 Number of chemicals affecting school 68 Toxic percentile nationwide (1=worst) 47th Toxic rank nationwide (1=worst) 59,917 Toxic percentile statewide (1=worst) 43rd Toxic rank statewide (1=worst) 1,063 Toxic Hazard 778.71
This school's air toxic concentration is 0.16 times the national average at schools.
This school's air toxic concentration is 0.80 times the state average at schools.
Top 5 facilities
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Top chemicals
Chemical Toxic Hazard
Cobalt 258.25
Chromium 195.72
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.) 164.75
Trichloroethylene 38.75
Chloroform 26.53
Ethylene oxide 24.67
Nickel 18.32
Nickel compounds 17.21
Lead 8.86
Benzene 8.73
Diisocyanates 5.54
Cadmium compounds 4.53
Polycyclic aromatic compounds 1.31
Toluene diisocyanate (mixed isomers) 0.92
Formaldehyde 0.80
Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate 0.73
Zinc compounds 0.68
Naphthalene 0.56
Ethylbenzene 0.33
Chlorine 0.23
Antimony compounds 0.20
Xylene (mixed isomers) 0.20
Copper 0.15
Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) 0.13
Triethylamine 0.10
Lead compounds 0.10
Hydrogen fluoride (Hydrofluoric acid) 0.06
Certain glycol ethers 0.05
Dichloromethane (Methylene chloride) 0.04
Hydrogen cyanide 0.04
Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) 0.03
Nitric acid 0.03
N,N-Dimethylformamide 0.03
1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene 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) 0.02
Acetonitrile 0.01
Toluene 0.01
n-Hexane (Hexane) 0.01
Silver compounds 0.01
Toluene-2,4-diisocyanate 0.01
Cyanide compounds 0.01
Ethylene glycol 0.01
Copper compounds (this category does not include copper phthalocyanine compounds that are substituted with only hydrogen, and/or chlorine, and/or bromine.) 0.00
o-Xylene 0.00
Pyridine 0.00
Manganese 0.00
Aluminum (fume or dust) 0.00
Phenol 0.00
Methyl methacrylate 0.00
Methanol 0.00
Methyl tert-butyl ether 0.00
Mercury 0.00
Benzo[g,h,i]perylene 0.00
Cyclohexane 0.00
Silver 0.00
Propylene oxide 0.00
Styrene 0.00
Vinyl acetate 0.00
Formic acid 0.00
Sodium nitrite 0.00
3-Iodo-2-propynyl butylcarbamate 0.00
Cumene 0.00
n-Butyl alcohol (1-Butanol) 0.00
Methyl isobutyl ketone 0.00
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) 0.00
Benzoyl peroxide 0.00
N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone 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 206.58
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.) 164.75
GE AVIATION General Electric Chromium 102.56
TECOMET Charlesbank Capital Partners Chromium 52.66
BOYD CORP INC. Goldman Sachs Trichloroethylene 38.75
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