If I'm working and living next to a place with a ton of EPA violations around weird chemicals that may be dangerous, what good is it to me whether some other company elsewhere has a similar number of violations?
Yes, but the question to me is how dangerous the dangerous is.
As a comparison, if you look at a single health inspection for a single restaurant, e.g.: https://stgencep.sccgov.org/sccdineout/INSPECTIONREPORT_DADW... is that a safe place to eat or not? Do you insist on only eating in restaurants that have a score of 100?