2-6Hazardous Materials Transportation Incidents, Injuries, and Fatalities: 1990-2007
2-6Hazardous Materials Transportation Incidents, Injuries, and Fatalities: 1990-2007
| R1990 | 2000 | R2005 | R2006 | 2007 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highway | 7,297 | 15,063 | 13,461 | 17,155 | 16,876 |
| Accident related | 249 | 329 | 322 | 305 | 301 |
| Injuries | 311 | 164 | 179 | 192 | 155 |
| Fatalities | 8 | 16 | 24 | 6 | 10 |
| Rail | 1,279 | 1,058 | 745 | 704 | 747 |
| Accident related | 48 | 62 | 51 | 44 | 52 |
| Injuries | 73 | 82 | 693 | 24 | 53 |
| Fatalities | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Air | 297 | 1,419 | 1,654 | 2,411 | 1,552 |
| Accident related | 0 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 7 |
| Injuries | 39 | 5 | 78 | 2 | 8 |
| Fatalities | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Water | 7 | 17 | 69 | 68 | 61 |
| Accident related | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Injuries | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 3 |
| Fatalities | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pipeline | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liquid | 180 | 146 | 138 | 119 | 115 |
| Injuries | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
| Fatalities | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Natural gas distribution | 110 | 154 | 171 | 141 | 153 |
| Injuries | 52 | 59 | 39 | 26 | 36 |
| Fatalities | 6 | 22 | 14 | 16 | 9 |
| Natural gas transmission | 89 | 80 | 181 | 146 | 133 |
| Injuries | 17 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 7 |
| Fatalities | 0 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Key: R = revised.
Notes: Accident related excludes human errors, package failures, and unreported cases. Water data are for incidents involving packaged materials only and do not include incidents where the vessel is the container (e.g., a barge or oil tanker). Nonpipeline reporting requirements changed in 2002.
Natural gas distribution total are revised for 1990. Highway injuries, rail injuries, liquid pipeline total, and natural gas distribution total and injuries dare are revised for 2005. The data for highway accident, air total, liquid pipeline total, natural gas distribution total and injuries, and natural gas transmission total are revised in 2006.
Sources: Highway, Rail, Air and Water-USDOT, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), Hazardous Materials Information System Database, available at http://hazmat.dot.gov/pubs/inc/data/2007/2007frm.htm. as of October 2008. Pipeline-USDOT, PHMSA, Office of Pipeline Safety, Pipeline Statistics, available at http://ops.dot.gov/stats/stats.htm as of October 2008.M