PERI: Air Toxics at School Index

Air Toxics at School 2022

School Info

School	Powder Mill School
Street	94 Powder Mill Rd
City	Southwick
State	MA
Number of students	384
Student % minority	12%
Type	Regular School
Status	1
Level	Elementary
Data Source	CCD (public schools)

Air Toxics Info

Number of facilities affecting school	85
Number of chemicals affecting school	56
Toxic percentile nationwide (1=worst)	20th
Toxic rank nationwide (1=worst)	25,109
Toxic percentile statewide (1=worst)	5th
Toxic rank statewide (1=worst)	93
Toxic Hazard	3,168.37

This school's air toxic concentration is 0.65 times the national average at schools.

This school's air toxic concentration is 3.25 times the state average at schools.

Top 5 facilities

Facility	Parent Company	Toxic Hazard
MOTT METALLURGICAL CORP	MOTT METALLURGICAL CORP	1,353.14
OMG INC	Steel Partners Holdings	976.22
ASSA ABLOY ACCESS & EGRESS HARDWARE GROUP - CORBIN RUSSWIN	Assa Abloy	553.71
PRATT & WHITNEY	RTX Corporation	66.58
KAMATICS CORP	Arcline Investment Management	38.92

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Top chemicals

Chemical	Toxic Hazard
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.)	1,651.89
Cobalt	1,026.78
Nickel compounds	271.57
Chromium	161.08
Formaldehyde	33.84
Nickel	11.93
Certain glycol ethers	2.66
Antimony compounds	2.39
Lead compounds	2.21
Epichlorohydrin	1.14
Acrylic acid	0.57
Nitric acid	0.55
Diisocyanates	0.45
1-Bromopropane	0.29
Lead	0.24
Ethylbenzene	0.20
Manganese	0.09
Dichloromethane (Methylene chloride)	0.07
n-Butyl alcohol (1-Butanol)	0.07
1,2-Dichloroethylene	0.05
Copper compounds (this category does not include copper phthalocyanine compounds that are substituted with only hydrogen, and/or chlorine, and/or bromine.)	0.05
Ozone	0.05
Xylene (mixed isomers)	0.04
Zinc compounds	0.04
Vinyl acetate	0.02
Benzene	0.02
N,N-Dimethylformamide	0.02
Trichloroethylene	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
Polycyclic aromatic compounds	0.01
Manganese compounds	0.01
Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size)	0.01
Copper	0.01
Toluene	0.00
Cyanide compounds	0.00
Methyl isobutyl ketone	0.00
Hydrogen sulfide	0.00
Methyl methacrylate	0.00
Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7))	0.00
n-Hexane (Hexane)	0.00
Methanol	0.00
Styrene	0.00
Tetrachloroethylene	0.00
2,4-D	0.00
Formic acid	0.00
Diethanolamine	0.00
Ethylene glycol	0.00
Cyclohexane	0.00
Benzo[g,h,i]perylene	0.00
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)	0.00
Mercury	0.00
tert-Butyl alcohol (tert-Butanol)	0.00
Butyraldehyde	0.00
Lithium carbonate	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
MOTT METALLURGICAL CORP	MOTT METALLURGICAL CORP	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.)	1,272.22
OMG INC	Steel Partners Holdings	Cobalt	976.18
ASSA ABLOY ACCESS & EGRESS HARDWARE GROUP - CORBIN RUSSWIN	Assa Abloy	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.)	379.29
ASSA ABLOY ACCESS & EGRESS HARDWARE GROUP - CORBIN RUSSWIN	Assa Abloy	Nickel compounds	174.37
MOTT METALLURGICAL CORP	MOTT METALLURGICAL CORP	Nickel compounds	80.93

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