PERI: Air Toxics at School Index

Air Toxics at School 2022

School Info

School	Abner Gibbs
Street	50 West Silver Street
City	Westfield
State	MA
Number of students	153
Student % minority	40%
Type	Regular School
Status	1
Level	Elementary
Data Source	CCD (public schools)

Air Toxics Info

Number of facilities affecting school	76
Number of chemicals affecting school	53
Toxic percentile nationwide (1=worst)	25th
Toxic rank nationwide (1=worst)	30,923
Toxic percentile statewide (1=worst)	8th
Toxic rank statewide (1=worst)	165
Toxic Hazard	2,369.03

This school's air toxic concentration is 0.49 times the national average at schools.

This school's air toxic concentration is 2.43 times the state average at schools.

Top 5 facilities

Facility	Parent Company	Toxic Hazard
MOTT METALLURGICAL CORP	MOTT METALLURGICAL CORP	1,186.20
OMG INC	Steel Partners Holdings	885.39
PRATT & WHITNEY	RTX Corporation	59.98
ONYX SPECIALTY PAPERS INC. - WILLOW MILL	ONYX SPECIALTY PAPERS	54.19
KAMATICS CORP	Arcline Investment Management	33.15

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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.)	1,115.54
Cobalt	931.13
Chromium	143.24
Formaldehyde	82.14
Nickel compounds	70.94
Nickel	10.86
Nitric acid	7.30
Antimony compounds	1.94
Lead compounds	1.80
Certain glycol ethers	1.62
Epichlorohydrin	0.96
Acrylic acid	0.49
Diisocyanates	0.25
Ethylbenzene	0.24
Lead	0.19
Manganese	0.09
n-Butyl alcohol (1-Butanol)	0.05
Xylene (mixed isomers)	0.04
Ozone	0.04
Zinc compounds	0.03
Benzene	0.03
Manganese compounds	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
Vinyl acetate	0.02
N,N-Dimethylformamide	0.02
Trichloroethylene	0.01
Copper	0.01
Cyanide compounds	0.00
Dichloromethane (Methylene chloride)	0.00
Toluene	0.00
Polycyclic aromatic compounds	0.00
Methyl isobutyl ketone	0.00
Hydrogen sulfide	0.00
n-Hexane (Hexane)	0.00
Methyl methacrylate	0.00
Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7))	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
Methanol	0.00
Styrene	0.00
2,4-D	0.00
Tetrachloroethylene	0.00
Formic acid	0.00
Diethanolamine	0.00
Ethylene glycol	0.00
Benzo[g,h,i]perylene	0.00
Cyclohexane	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.)	1,115.26
OMG INC	Steel Partners Holdings	Cobalt	885.35
MOTT METALLURGICAL CORP	MOTT METALLURGICAL CORP	Nickel compounds	70.94
ONYX SPECIALTY PAPERS INC. - WILLOW MILL	ONYX SPECIALTY PAPERS	Formaldehyde	54.19
PRATT & WHITNEY	RTX Corporation	Cobalt	44.24

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