PERI: Air Toxics at School Index

Air Toxics at School 2022

School Info

School	Somerville High
Street	81 Highland Avenue
City	Somerville
State	MA
Number of students	1,310
Student % minority	66%
Type	Regular School
Status	1
Level	High School
Data Source	CCD (public schools)

Air Toxics Info

Number of facilities affecting school	140
Number of chemicals affecting school	68
Toxic percentile nationwide (1=worst)	42nd
Toxic rank nationwide (1=worst)	53,893
Toxic percentile statewide (1=worst)	28th
Toxic rank statewide (1=worst)	682
Toxic Hazard	971.81

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	334.16
GE AVIATION	General Electric	184.37
CERTAINTEED LLC	Saint-Gobain	135.80
PARADIGM PRECISION HOLDINGS LLC	Pursuit Aerospace	97.86
BOYD CORP INC.	Goldman Sachs	52.30

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Top chemicals

Chemical	Toxic Hazard
Cobalt	367.68
Chromium	275.55
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.)	135.76
Trichloroethylene	52.30
Ethylene oxide	24.64
Nickel	23.42
Nickel compounds	23.40
Chloroform	22.76
Benzene	16.36
Lead	10.59
Diisocyanates	6.84
Cadmium compounds	4.08
Naphthalene	1.17
Polycyclic aromatic compounds	1.13
Ethylbenzene	0.98
Zinc compounds	0.96
Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate	0.85
Toluene diisocyanate (mixed isomers)	0.80
Formaldehyde	0.69
Lead compounds	0.29
Xylene (mixed isomers)	0.28
Chlorine	0.21
Antimony compounds	0.19
Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size)	0.17
Triethylamine	0.15
Copper	0.13
Hydrogen fluoride (Hydrofluoric acid)	0.07
Hydrogen cyanide	0.05
1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene	0.04
Certain glycol ethers	0.04
Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size)	0.04
Nitric acid	0.04
Dichloromethane (Methylene chloride)	0.04
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	0.02
Acetonitrile	0.01
n-Hexane (Hexane)	0.01
Silver compounds	0.01
Toluene-2,4-diisocyanate	0.01
Ethylene glycol	0.01
Cyanide compounds	0.00
o-Xylene	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
Manganese	0.00
Aluminum (fume or dust)	0.00
Methyl methacrylate	0.00
Phenol	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
3-Iodo-2-propynyl butylcarbamate	0.00
Formic acid	0.00
Methyl isobutyl ketone	0.00
n-Butyl alcohol (1-Butanol)	0.00
Cumene	0.00
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)	0.00
Benzoyl peroxide	0.00
N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone	0.00
Tetrabromobisphenol A	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	265.21
GE AVIATION	General Electric	Chromium	145.31
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.)	135.76
TECOMET	Charlesbank Capital Partners	Chromium	67.60
PARADIGM PRECISION HOLDINGS LLC	Pursuit Aerospace	Cobalt	62.92

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