Table 2-37: Train Fatalities, Injuries, and Accidents by Type of Accidenta

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	(R) 2004	(R) 2005	(R) 2006	(R) 2007	2008
Fatalities, total	29	8	10	19	6	67	12	14	25	18	4	9	10	6	15	4	13	33	6	9	27
Derailments	8	2	2	10	2	53	2	2	6	2	1	1	2	1	7	1	2	2	3	1	0
Collisions	20	6	8	5	1	14	8	7	16	10	1	7	1	4	4	0	8	6	0	4	26
Other	1	0	0	4	3	0	2	5	3	6	2	1	7	1	4	3	3	25	3	4	1
Injuries, total	665	476	451	326	171	308	262	294	281	185	129	129	275	310	1,884	232	347	790	222	309	279
Derailments^b	286	197	272	174	71	179	120	90	98	111	61	41	121	113	1,691	121	104	236	97	71	37
Collisions	341	223	139	103	59	87	118	151	146	55	32	62	89	145	151	56	160	101	85	189	108
Other	38	56	40	49	41	42	24	53	37	19	36	26	65	52	42	55	83	453	40	49	134
Accidents, total	8,205	3,275	2,879	2,658	2,359	2,611	2,504	2,459	2,443	2,397	2,575	2,768	2,983	3,023	2,738	(R) 3,019	3,385	3,266	2,988	2,681	2,428
Derailments	6,442	2,495	2,146	1,936	1,734	1,930	1,825	1,742	1,816	1,741	1,757	1,961	2,112	2,234	1,989	(R) 2,133	2,436	2,305	2,189	1,926	1,763
Collisions	1,201	366	315	261	207	205	240	235	205	202	168	205	238	220	192	198	236	273	203	212	185
Other	562	414	418	461	418	476	439	482	422	454	650	602	633	569	557	688	713	688	596	543	480

KEY: R = revised.

^aExcludes highway-rail grade crossing accidents.

^b In 2002, 1441 injures were due to a single derailment in North Dakota involving hazardous materials.

NOTE

This table includes information for both freight and passenger railroad operations. It is train accidents only.

SOURCE

U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Office of safety analysis, Accident summary tables, Train Accidents by Type and Major Cause from Form FRA F 6180.54., Table 3.09, available at http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/ as of August 13, 2009.

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Table 2-37: Train Fatalities, Injuries, and Accidents by Type of Accidenta

Table 2-37: Train Fatalities, Injuries, and Accidents by Type of Accidenta