Air Toxics at School 2022
School Info
School Massachusetts Institute of Technology Street 77 Massachusetts Avenue City Cambridge State MA Number of students 0 Data Source IPEDS (higher ed)
Air Toxics Info
Number of facilities affecting school 140 Number of chemicals affecting school 67 Toxic percentile nationwide (1=worst) 45th Toxic rank nationwide (1=worst) 57,884 Toxic percentile statewide (1=worst) 38th Toxic rank statewide (1=worst) 943 Toxic Hazard 838.58
This school's air toxic concentration is 0.17 times the national average at schools.
This school's air toxic concentration is 0.86 times the state average at schools.
Top 5 facilities
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Top chemicals
Chemical Toxic Hazard
Cobalt 292.85
Chromium 221.39
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.) 146.58
Trichloroethylene 43.55
Chloroform 31.09
Ethylene oxide 24.11
Nickel 19.91
Nickel compounds 19.49
Benzene 11.62
Lead 9.36
Diisocyanates 5.99
Cadmium compounds 4.16
Polycyclic aromatic compounds 2.42
Toluene diisocyanate (mixed isomers) 0.94
Naphthalene 0.80
Formaldehyde 0.78
Zinc compounds 0.75
Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate 0.73
Ethylbenzene 0.50
Chlorine 0.22
Xylene (mixed isomers) 0.22
Antimony compounds 0.19
Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) 0.14
Lead compounds 0.13
Triethylamine 0.11
Copper 0.11
Hydrogen fluoride (Hydrofluoric acid) 0.06
Certain glycol ethers 0.05
Hydrogen cyanide 0.04
Dichloromethane (Methylene chloride) 0.04
Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) 0.04
1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene 0.03
Nitric acid 0.03
N,N-Dimethylformamide 0.03
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
Toluene 0.01
Acetonitrile 0.01
n-Hexane (Hexane) 0.01
Silver compounds 0.01
Toluene-2,4-diisocyanate 0.01
Ethylene glycol 0.01
Cyanide compounds 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
Pyridine 0.00
o-Xylene 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
Propylene oxide 0.00
Styrene 0.00
Vinyl acetate 0.00
Sodium nitrite 0.00
Formic acid 0.00
3-Iodo-2-propynyl butylcarbamate 0.00
Cumene 0.00
Methyl isobutyl ketone 0.00
n-Butyl alcohol (1-Butanol) 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 227.09
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.) 146.58
GE AVIATION General Electric Chromium 117.98
TECOMET Charlesbank Capital Partners Chromium 57.89
BOYD CORP INC. Goldman Sachs Trichloroethylene 43.55
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