PERI: Air Toxics at School Index

Air Toxics at School 2022

School Info

School	MGH Institute of Health Professions
Street	36 1st Avenue
City	Boston
State	MA
Number of students	0
Data Source	IPEDS (higher ed)

Air Toxics Info

Number of facilities affecting school	137
Number of chemicals affecting school	66
Toxic percentile nationwide (1=worst)	42nd
Toxic rank nationwide (1=worst)	53,735
Toxic percentile statewide (1=worst)	28th
Toxic rank statewide (1=worst)	673
Toxic Hazard	977.97

This school's air toxic concentration is 0.20 times the national average at schools.

This school's air toxic concentration is 1.00 times the state average at schools.

Top 5 facilities

Facility	Parent Company	Toxic Hazard
TECOMET	Charlesbank Capital Partners	325.52
GE AVIATION	General Electric	212.46
CERTAINTEED LLC	Saint-Gobain	117.54
PARADIGM PRECISION HOLDINGS LLC	Pursuit Aerospace	73.05
BOYD CORP INC.	Goldman Sachs	49.07

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Top chemicals

Chemical	Toxic Hazard
Cobalt	349.83
Chromium	294.83
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.)	117.51
Trichloroethylene	49.07
Chloroform	34.57
Benzene	31.05
Nickel	26.28
Ethylene oxide	22.14
Nickel compounds	21.89
Lead	9.80
Diisocyanates	6.33
Cadmium compounds	3.38
Naphthalene	3.06
Ethylbenzene	1.58
Polycyclic aromatic compounds	1.56
Zinc compounds	0.87
Toluene diisocyanate (mixed isomers)	0.80
Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate	0.75
Formaldehyde	0.70
Xylene (mixed isomers)	0.40
Lead compounds	0.24
Chlorine	0.19
Antimony compounds	0.18
Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size)	0.17
1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene	0.14
Triethylamine	0.13
Copper	0.12
Hydrogen fluoride (Hydrofluoric acid)	0.07
Certain glycol ethers	0.04
Hydrogen cyanide	0.04
Nitric acid	0.04
Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size)	0.04
N,N-Dimethylformamide	0.03
Dichloromethane (Methylene chloride)	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	0.02
n-Hexane (Hexane)	0.02
Acetonitrile	0.01
Silver compounds	0.01
Toluene-2,4-diisocyanate	0.01
Cyanide compounds	0.00
Ethylene glycol	0.00
Manganese	0.00
o-Xylene	0.00
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
Aluminum (fume or dust)	0.00
Methyl methacrylate	0.00
Phenol	0.00
Methanol	0.00
Benzo[g,h,i]perylene	0.00
Mercury	0.00
Cyclohexane	0.00
Propylene oxide	0.00
Styrene	0.00
Sodium nitrite	0.00
Vinyl acetate	0.00
Formic acid	0.00
3-Iodo-2-propynyl butylcarbamate	0.00
Methyl isobutyl ketone	0.00
Cumene	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	258.35
GE AVIATION	General Electric	Chromium	169.10
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.)	117.51
TECOMET	Charlesbank Capital Partners	Chromium	65.85
BOYD CORP INC.	Goldman Sachs	Trichloroethylene	49.07

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