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Progress Report Data Summary


This page contains summary and supplemental progress data for "Reducing Safety and Health Incidents and Environmental Footprint."

 

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Total Recordable Injuries and Illnesses
Significant Environmental, Process and Transportation Incidents
U.S. Toxics Release Inventory Waste and Emissions
Global Air Toxics and Carcinogenic Air Emissions
Global Greenhouse Gases
Global Energy Consumption
Global Hazardous Waste
Environmental Expenses
Environmental Fines and Penalties
Summary of Changes in EPA Reporting Requirements
Injuries/Illnesses

Total Recordable Injuries and Illnesses*
  1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
DuPont  0.48 0.42 1.86 1.94 2.18 1.99 1.55 1.36 1.24 1.1
DuPont (excludes injuries/illnesses that do not meet DuPont criteria for measuring safety performance) 0.48 0.42 0.41 0.41 0.41 0.39 0.38 0.35 0.32 0.33
Chemical Industry Average 4.8 4.8 4.2 4.4 4.2 4 3.3 3.4 3.5 --
Manufacturing Industry Average 10.6 10.3 9.7 9.2 9 8.1 7.9 6.8 6.6 --
*Recordable Injuries per 200,000 hours Worked
1998 through 2005 (estimated) Injury/Illness statistics for employees reflect expanded reporting of cumulative musculoskeletal disorders. Comparative statistics are not available for years prior to 1998.

Significant Environmental, Process and Transportation Incidents
  1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Environmental 45 10 1 0 1 0 2 1 2 1 0
Transportation 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 0
Process 4 5 6 0 1 0 2 1 1 1 2
Fire 0 1
Major SHE Incidents 47 12 6 1 1 1 3 4 3 2 3
(A Major safety, health and environmental incident is a significant environmental, process or transportation incident by DuPont definition.)
Incidents that meet both Environmental and Process definitions are counted as single Major SHE Incidents.

Fire incidents not included before 2004


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U.S. Toxics Release Inventory Waste and Emissions
  1987 1991 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Total Waste as Generated -- 890 619 673 550 515 536 587 380
Deepwell Disposal of Hazardous Waste 237 187 45 38 38 33 35 35 26.3
Releases to Air, Water and Land 71 57 37 41 37 33 36 33 33
Millions of pounds - Data as reported to the U.S. EPA. 286 new chemicals added in 1995. Total waste as generated first reported in 1991. 2004 data reflects Invista separation.

Global Air Toxics and Carcinogenic Air Emissions
  1987 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Air Toxics 68 32 29 26 24.5 18.8 16.1 -- -- -- --
VOC Emissions 21.1 19.8 21.3 18.9 18.5
Air Carcinogens 9.1 2 2.2 1.6 1.2 1.4 1.2 0.8 0.7 0.9 0.7
Basis of air emissions reporting changed to more comprehensive VOC Emissions in 2001.


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Global Greenhouse Gases
(Billions of Pounds of Carbon Dioxide Equivalents)
  1990 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Carbon Dioxide 22.3 22.2 21.4 22.5 21.6 20.9 21.2 20.5 19.9 19.8
HFC's, PFC's, CH4 52.6 69.7 56.6 59.7 46.7 25.9 16.2 14.7 11.5 10.4
Total Kyoto Basis 74.9 91.9 78 82.2 68.3 46.8 33.7 35.2 31.4 30.2
1990 baseline and all years adjusted to reflect Invista divestiture. Reflects a 60% reduction since 1990. Prior to the Invista separation, DuPont achieved a 72% reduction below the original 1990 baseline. 

Global Energy Consumption
(Indexed to 1990 = 100)
  1990 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
All Global Regions 100% 98% 97% 99% 101% 104% 96% 93% 94% 92% 94%
MMMM BTU's 158.8 156 154 157 160 165 152 148 149 146.1 149.7
Global energy consumption is down 6% since 1990, despite a 41% increase in production. All years adjusted to reflect Invista divestiture.


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Global Hazardous Waste (Millions of Pounds)
  1990 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Europe 95 25 23 24 8 25.8 40.7 49.6 66.2 72.9 52.8
Latin America 205 204.9 141.9 180.2 252.9 191.2 206.4 1.9 1.8 2.9 8.3
Asia/Pacific 6.8 1.1 1.2 6.1 4.3 1.5 6.3 4.3 3.6 4.5 3
United States 1,929 1,539 1,566 1,542 1,111 881 916 851 931.7 961.7 1013.9
Total, All Regions 2235.8 1770 1732.1 1752.3 1376.2 1099.5 1169.4 906.8 1003.9 1042 1078.0
All years adjusted to reflect Invista divestiture. 

Environmental Expenses (Millions of U.S. Dollars)
  1994 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Total Pre-Tax Costs 950 560 560 550 550 480 482 455
Accrual for Remediation Activities 185 77 35 38 43 48 48 58
Expenditures for Previously Accrued Activities 91 62 62 65 66 62 60 74
Accrued Balance for Future Remediation 616 462 435 408 385 371 380 359


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Environmental Fines and Penalties (Millions of U.S. Dollars)
  1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
All Industry 151 94 173 264 185 228 225 246 210 224 217
DuPont 1.2 0.3 1.5 0.52 0.26 0.17 1.2 0.23 0.2 0.46 1.4
Number of Fines 57 31 20 17 20 17 21 20 24 30 17


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Summary of Changes in EPA Reporting Requirements
1987: HCl from fuel combustion not included in 1987 but is reported in all subsequent years
1990: Total ammonium sulfate reported in previous years. Redefined to count only the ammonia portion.
1991: CFC's added to chemical list
Transfers for recycle and reuse added to reporting for all chemicals
1994: 38 chemicals/categories added to chemical list
Ammonia definition change (only anhydrous ammonia and aqueous ammonia from water dissociable ammonium salts and other sources; 10% of total aqueous ammonia reportable)
Non-aerosol forms of sulfuric acid delisted
Acetone delisted
Ammonium Sulfate (solution) delisted
Ammonium Nitrate (solution) delisted
1995: 283 chemicals/categories added to chemical list (Nitrate Compounds are included in this new list of chemicals)
Non-aerosol forms of HCl delisted
2000: New, lowered thresholds for list of Persistent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic chemicals including Dioxins, Furans, metal compounds and PCB's.


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Injuries/Illnesses*
  1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Lost Work Injuries
  Employees 57(3) 24(1) 31(1) 19(2) 329(1) 292(0) 273(0) 311(1) 247(0) 201(2) 182(1)
  Employees**         24(1) 25(0) 27(0) 28(0) 26(0) 28(2) 20(0)
  Contractors 35(0) 25(1) 20(1) 19(0) 16(0) 16(0) 12(0) 43(4) 37(0) 32(0) 35(0)
*Numbers in ( ) = fatalities
**Excludes injuries/illnesses that do not meet DuPont criteria for measuring safety performance.
  1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Recordable Injuries
  Employees 773 489 392 323 1382 1531 1844 1785 1259 1043 831
  Employees**         301 326 348 346 304 262 217
  Contractors 255 260 222 177 150 197 220 379 318 309 289
**Excludes injuries/illnesses that do not meet DuPont criteria for measuring safety performance. 1998 and 2002 Injury/Illness statistics for employees reflect expanded reporting of cumulative musculoskeletal disorders. Comparative statistics are not available for years prior to 1998.
  1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Off-Job Injuries
  Employees 767(11) 714(9) 575(10) 464(21) 388(9) 486(16) 454(16) 480(7) 369(6) 369(10) 270(7)


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