Air Toxics at School 2022
School Info
School Perkins Elementary School Street 50 Burke Street City South Boston State MA Number of students 158 Student % minority 88% Type Regular School Status 1 Level Elementary Data Source CCD (public schools)
Air Toxics Info
Number of facilities affecting school 145 Number of chemicals affecting school 67 Toxic percentile nationwide (1=worst) 40th Toxic rank nationwide (1=worst) 51,371 Toxic percentile statewide (1=worst) 25th Toxic rank statewide (1=worst) 600 Toxic Hazard 1,068.87
This school's air toxic concentration is 0.22 times the national average at schools.
This school's air toxic concentration is 1.10 times the state average at schools.
Top 5 facilities
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Top chemicals
Chemical Toxic Hazard
Cobalt 395.05
Chromium 252.92
Chloroform 161.00
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.) 126.97
Trichloroethylene 36.42
Nickel 24.47
Ethylene oxide 20.51
Nickel compounds 16.28
Benzene 10.92
Lead 7.87
Diisocyanates 4.88
Cadmium compounds 3.92
Polycyclic aromatic compounds 2.41
Formaldehyde 0.95
Toluene diisocyanate (mixed isomers) 0.93
Naphthalene 0.61
Zinc compounds 0.59
Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate 0.57
Ethylbenzene 0.24
Xylene (mixed isomers) 0.23
Chlorine 0.21
Antimony compounds 0.16
Copper 0.14
Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) 0.11
Triethylamine 0.07
Lead compounds 0.06
Certain glycol ethers 0.06
Hydrogen fluoride (Hydrofluoric acid) 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
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
Nitric acid 0.02
Acetonitrile 0.01
Toluene 0.01
n-Hexane (Hexane) 0.01
Silver compounds 0.01
Cyanide compounds 0.01
Toluene-2,4-diisocyanate 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
Pyridine 0.00
Ethylene glycol 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
Mercury 0.00
Benzo[g,h,i]perylene 0.00
Cyclohexane 0.00
Propylene oxide 0.00
Styrene 0.00
Vinyl acetate 0.00
Silver 0.00
Formic acid 0.00
Sodium nitrite 0.00
Cumene 0.00
3-Iodo-2-propynyl butylcarbamate 0.00
Methyl isobutyl ketone 0.00
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) 0.00
n-Butyl alcohol (1-Butanol) 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 193.87
TEI BIOSCIENCES Integra LifeSciences Chloroform 155.76
DEPUY SYNTHES A JOHNSON & JOHNSON CO Johnson & Johnson Cobalt 150.06
GE AVIATION General Electric Chromium 141.22
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.) 126.97
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