PERI: Air Toxics at School Index

Air Toxics at School 2022

School	University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Street	374 Whitmore Building 181 Presidents Drive
City	Amherst
State	MA
Number of students	0
Data Source	IPEDS (higher ed)

Number of facilities affecting school	40
Number of chemicals affecting school	44
Toxic percentile nationwide (1=worst)	46th
Toxic rank nationwide (1=worst)	59,233
Toxic percentile statewide (1=worst)	41st
Toxic rank statewide (1=worst)	1,019
Toxic Hazard	799.47

This school's air toxic concentration is 0.16 times the national average at schools.

This school's air toxic concentration is 0.82 times the state average at schools.

Facility	Parent Company	Toxic Hazard
OMG INC	Steel Partners Holdings	421.98
BETE FOG NOZZLE INC.	BETE FOG NOZZLE INC.	289.68
SOLUTIA INC	Eastman Chemical	34.81
PREFERE MELAMINES LLC	One Rock Capital Partners	21.18
IRWIN INDUSTRIAL TOOLS DBA LENOX TOOLS	Stanley Black & Decker	11.55

Chemical	Toxic Hazard
Cobalt	424.47
Chromium	277.47
Formaldehyde	62.38
Nickel	22.51
Trichloroethylene	9.15
Certain glycol ethers	1.01
Epichlorohydrin	0.94
Acrylic acid	0.87
Diisocyanates	0.31
n-Butyl alcohol (1-Butanol)	0.06
Ethylbenzene	0.05
Vinyl acetate	0.05
Nitric acid	0.04
N,N-Dimethylformamide	0.03
Copper	0.03
Xylene (mixed isomers)	0.02
Lead	0.02
Benzene	0.02
Lead compounds	0.01
Dichloromethane (Methylene chloride)	0.01
Manganese compounds	0.01
Polycyclic aromatic compounds	0.00
Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate	0.00
Hydrogen sulfide	0.00
Toluene	0.00
Methanol	0.00
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)	0.00
Styrene	0.00
Tetrachloroethylene	0.00
Diethanolamine	0.00
n-Hexane (Hexane)	0.00
Formic acid	0.00
Ethylene glycol	0.00
2,4-D	0.00
Cyanide compounds	0.00
Manganese	0.00
Methyl isobutyl ketone	0.00
Benzo[g,h,i]perylene	0.00
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)	0.00
tert-Butyl alcohol (tert-Butanol)	0.00
Butyraldehyde	0.00
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.)	0.00
N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone	0.00
Nonylphenol Ethoxylates	0.00

Facility	Parent Company	Chemical	Toxic Hazard
OMG INC	Steel Partners Holdings	Cobalt	421.96
BETE FOG NOZZLE INC.	BETE FOG NOZZLE INC.	Chromium	267.51
SOLUTIA INC	Eastman Chemical	Formaldehyde	34.76
BETE FOG NOZZLE INC.	BETE FOG NOZZLE INC.	Nickel	22.14
PREFERE MELAMINES LLC	One Rock Capital Partners	Formaldehyde	21.17