How Many People Were Killed by Windblown Dust Events in the United States?
Author: Tong, D.; Feng, Irene Y.; Gill, Thomas E.; Schepanski, K.; Wang, J. Description: Windblown dust events, including dust storms and smaller blowing dust events, pose severe risks to public health and transportation safety. In the United States, the statistics of fatalities caused by dust events remains elusive. We developed a new dataset by merging dust fatality data from NOAA Storm Events Database and the Department of Transportation Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). There was a total of 232 deaths from windblown dust events from 2007 to 2017. This number…
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