Diesel & Health in America:
Diesel Soot Health Impacts
Diesel Soot Health Impacts
Where You Live
Middlesex County
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 Middlesex County is 1 in 2,030.
- This risk is 493 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 | |
| 65 | Premature Deaths |
| 107 | Non-Fatal Heart Attacks |
| 1,448 | Asthma Attacks |
| 43 | Chronic Bronchitis |
| 8,892 | Work Loss Days (WLD) |
| 51,311 | Minor Restricted Activity Days (MRAD) |
How the Risk from Diesel Soot in Middlesex County Compares to Other Counties Nationally:
99%
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How the Risk from Diesel Soot in Middlesex County Compares to Other New Jersey Counties:
Lifetime Cancers per Million People in Middlesex County:
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493 |
42 |
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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 | 8,937 | 6,455 | 2,482 |
| PM2.5 | 389 | 159 | 230 |
| PM10 | 421 | 184 | 237 |
| CO | 3,016 | 1,729 | 1,287 |
| VOC | 577 | 293 | 284 |
| SO2 | 480 | 129 | 351 |
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