Sentences with phrase «deaths per year»

Recent studies estimate that between 15,400 and 21,800 deaths per year are attributable to radon gas.

More specifically, in 2008 there were 703 reported traffic fatalities in the State of Arkansas, averaging out to 25 deaths per year for every 100,000 drivers on Arkansas roads.

Arkansas 5.99 deaths per 100,000 workers 71 workplace deaths per year Deadliest occupation: Production, transportation and material moving (27 deaths per year)

Alaska 9.25 deaths per 100,000 workers 30 workplace deaths per year Deadliest occupation: Natural resources, construction and maintenance (12 deaths per year)

Wyoming 12.14 deaths per 100,000 workers 33 workplace deaths per year Deadliest occupation: Production, transportation and material moving (11 deaths per year)

West Virginia 6.65 deaths per 100,000 workers 46 workplace deaths per year Deadliest occupation: Natural resources, construction and maintenance (19 deaths per year)

North Dakota 11.11 deaths per 100,000 workers 46 workplace deaths per year Deadliest occupation: Natural resources, construction and maintenance (20 deaths per year) Note: North Dakota, incidentally, also rates as the unhealthiest state, per Policygenius research from earlier this year.

Oklahoma 5.88 deaths per 100,000 workers 93 workplace deaths per year Deadliest occupation: Production, transportation and material moving (36 deaths per year)

Montana 7.81 deaths per 100,000 workers 36 workplace deaths per year Deadliest occupation: Natural resources, construction and maintenance (12 deaths per year)

Tragically, those accidents result in nearly 36,000 deaths per year.

The latest projections suggest that there will continue to be around 2,500 deaths per year for the rest of this current decade before annual numbers begin to decline.

The Good News: More Are Getting Help While hundreds of deaths per year and millions driving drowsy are certainly clear and unequivocal indicators that something has to be done about drowsy driving, the good news is that many people are taking matters into their own hands.

Burns can range from first - degree (top layer) to third - degree burns (tissue damage), and they result in over 4,500 deaths per year due to cell death or infection or smoke inhalation.

«Agriculture currently has the highest number of accidents and deaths per year in Ireland.

More than two million injuries and 40,000 deaths per year result from car crashes, according to government statistics.

PE is thought to be responsible for 60,000 deaths per year in the United Kingdom.

Burns and fires are a common cause of accidental death in children and adults, and account for an estimated 3,500 adult and child deaths per year.

In Illinois, there are nearly 1,000 highway deaths per year, with 991 occurring in 2013, according to the Illinois Department of Transportation

While our roads have become less dangerous in the past decade, there are still over 300 motor vehicle accident deaths per year in British Columbia, according to the BC Coroners Service.

And in case you're wondering what happened after 2008, the figures for 2009 — 2013 are continuing to decline even further, with deaths per year down to under 25,000 for this most recent period.

Using statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Indur Goklany estimates that this would lead to at least 192,000 excess deaths per year, plus disease resulting in the loss of 6.7 million disability - adjusted life - years (DALYs) per year.

It contributes to 3.3 million deaths per year.

Adoption of the «healthier global diet» by 2050 could save 5.1 million deaths per year, with 7.3 million lives saved by vegetarianism and 8.1 million for veganism.

At present, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates [PDF] that finally completing and implementing a Utility MACT mercury rule will prevent up to 11,000 premature deaths per year, along with other enormous health benefits, by the time the rule is fully implemented.

Climate change is already responsible for over 150,000 human deaths per year, according to the World Health Organization.

And the more prosaic reduction in soot pollution caused by the partial substitution of gas for coal matters a lot, given that, while climate change gets the headlines, coal causes an estimated 6,000 to 10,000 deaths per year in America today.

For bicyclists ≥ 16 years of age, there were only slight changes in the average number of deaths per year and the mortality rate per 100000 person - years, and the time series analysis demonstrated no significant change in deaths after legislation.

For bicyclists 1 to 15 years of age, the average number of deaths per year decreased 52 %, the mortality rate per 100000 person - years decreased 55 %, and the time series analysis demonstrated a significant reduction in deaths after legislation.

In 2004, the World Health Organization estimated that about one million deaths per year are caused by air pollution, and several epidemiological studies have linked air pollution to the development of cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses, including lung cancer.

So 160 deaths per year where heat was the direct cause.

How many deaths per year from heat have we measured in the past?

Strengthened Real Driving Emissions test programs in all major markets that follow the EU's regulatory example could avoid 1.5 million tonnes of NOx and 31,400 premature deaths per year in 2040.

If correct, they imply that wood - burning fireplaces cause 520 deaths per year, etc..

The prize would be a major contribution to social and economic development and help to avoid 1.5 million premature deaths per year.

As the MSM widely publicized, a «scientific» study announced that global warming was causing 300,000 deaths per year, which was an inconvenient non-truth since the study was fabricated by climate change radicals.

I read recently that Global Warming is causing 150K deaths per year or so due to malnutrition.

«If numbers could be generated for how many deaths per year were caused by each degree rise in global temperature, for instance, a similar case could be made against a particular company that produced or emitted a known percentage of the carbon load contributing to global warming.»

This suffering included 302,000 deaths per year from malaria, diarrhoea and malnutrition attributed to climate change, claimed the report, out of 7,550,000 deaths from the same diseases.

The claim of X deaths per year from climate change belies the reality that each of those virtual deaths are from poverty, not from from climate change.

Also does not include accidents caused by weather modification (over 6,000 deaths per year and 480,000 injuries in America alone).

We are «already» enduring «350,000 climate - related deaths per year,» they now say, and that number will double by 2030.

Lorin Symington: Smoke from burning biomass indoors for cooking and heating is responsible for more than 4 million deaths per year, and untold millions of cases of pneumonia, chronic respiratory conditions and cataracts.

A study published today suggests sea level rise could cause at least 84 to 139 extra deaths per year from cyclone - related coastal flooding in the United States by 2100, for example.

«Air pollution from international shipping accounts for around 50,000 premature deaths per year in Europe alone, at an annual cost to society of more than $ 58bn [$ 65bn],» says the group on its website.

Beyond coal - related carbon emissions being a primary contributor to climate change, studies have found that coal - fired electricity has significant public health risks; a 2016 analysis found that coal dust is responsible for about 22,900 premature deaths per year throughout the E.U.

A recent World Health Organization report suggests that globally climate change could cause an additional 250 000 additional deaths per year between 2030 and 2050, not taking into account factors such as the effects of economic damage, major heat wave events, river flooding, water scarcity, or human conflict.

The transportation sector is a major contributor to black carbon emissions and was responsible for 19 % of global black carbon emissions in 2000, contributing to 3.2 million deaths per year.

Heat stress is projected to increase as a result of both increased summer temperatures and humidity.55, 61 One study projected an increase of between 166 and 2,217 excess deaths per year from heat wave - related mortality in Chicago alone by 2081 - 2100.62 The lower number assumes a climate scenario with significant reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases (B1), while the upper number assumes a scenario under which emissions continue to increase (A2).

A study published in the journal Nature in September last year showed that outdoor air pollution is linked with 3.3 million premature deaths per year, which is more than those caused by AIDS and malaria making it the world's biggest single killer.

Floods are the second deadliest of all weather - related hazards in the United States, accounting for approximately 98 deaths per year, 57 most due to drowning.58 Flash floods (see Ch.