Diesel Soot Health Impacts
The lifetime cancer risk from diesel soot in your community exceeds the risk of all other air toxics tracked by EPA combined.
- The average lifetime diesel soot cancer risk for a resident of Duval County is 1 in 3,225.
- This risk is 310 times greater than EPA's acceptable cancer level of 1 in a million.
Find out how this risk was calculated; understand how your risk might be higher; an explanation of 1-in-a-million acceptable risk
Annual Diesel Fine Particle Health Impacts Projected in 2010:
| Adults | |
| 40 | Premature Deaths |
| 41 | Non-Fatal Heart Attacks |
| 837 | Asthma Attacks |
| 24 | Chronic Bronchitis |
| 4,989 | Work Loss Days (WLD) |
| 28,805 | Minor Restricted Activity Days (MRAD) |
How the Risk from Diesel Soot in Duval County Compares to Other Counties Nationally:
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| healthiest Counties | [PERCENTILE] | unhealthiest Counties | ||||||||
How the Risk from Diesel Soot in Duval County Compares to Other Florida Counties:
Lifetime Cancers per Million People in Duval County:
| 310 |
40 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inhaled Diesel Soot |
Other Inhaled Toxics |
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How did CATF compare the risk of diesel
particulate to other air toxics?
Diesel Emissions (2005):
| Pollutant | Annual Tons per Year |
Highway (on road) |
Heavy Equipment (non road) |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOx | 11,642 | 7,856 | 3,787 |
| PM2.5 | 574 | 232 | 342 |
| PM10 | 622 | 269 | 353 |
| CO | 4,670 | 2,727 | 1,943 |
| VOC | 936 | 517 | 420 |
| SO2 | 779 | 246 | 534 |
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