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Table 2-15: Train Accident/Incident Injuries, Including at Highway-Rail Crossings, by Category of Person Injured: 2007

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Table 2-15: Train Accident/Incident Injuries, Including at Highway-Rail Crossings, by Category of Person Injured: 2007

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(Includes freight railroad, Amtrak, and commuter rail operations)

State Worker on duty1 Passenger on train Trespasser Non-trespasser Other
Alabama 84 12 11 30 6
Alaska 48 2 1 0 0
Arizona 75 8 18 7 3
Arkansas 85 4 7 36 28
California 349 133 72 35 38
Colorado 83 17 15 9 5
Connecticut 84 17 3 4 5
Delaware 38 8 1 4 4
District of Columbia 58 24 0 21 5
Florida 85 92 26 25 12
Georgia 97 19 29 20 7
Hawaii 0 0 0 0 0
Idaho 48 1 4 3 0
Illinois 474 310 52 125 51
Indiana 119 13 31 30 5
Iowa 101 9 8 25 7
Kansas 133 4 10 19 14
Kentucky 74 1 12 16 4
Louisiana 99 9 15 52 5
Maine 27 1 1 1 1
Maryland 57 26 5 11 4
Massachusetts 95 18 5 5 11
Michigan 87 10 8 16 6
Minnesota 125 7 16 13 7
Mississippi 38 13 8 17 5
Missouri 120 14 16 24 14
Montana 88 11 5 2 8
Nebraska 151 3 8 15 14
Nevada 20 6 2 2 0
New Hampshire 3 0 0 0 0
New Jersey 262 55 7 62 14
New Mexico 33 12 8 4 6
New York 465 215 14 249 34
North Carolina 39 18 21 18 1
North Dakota 40 5 2 3 1
Ohio 160 9 41 17 8
Oklahoma 63 0 12 34 3
Oregon 68 22 8 15 1
Pennsylvania 431 208 22 150 20
Rhode Island 8 4 0 0 0
South Carolina 29 11 13 19 5
South Dakota 17 0 3 0 2
Tennessee 69 3 4 20 12
Texas 443 26 88 70 58
Utah 33 10 2 6 3
Vermont 22 0 0 0 0
Virginia 66 38 11 12 5
Washington 131 18 22 15 10
West Virginia 50 1 4 4 3
Wisconsin 83 4 6 23 1
Wyoming 71 0 1 2 16
United States, total 5,528 1,451 678 1,290 472

1 Includes railroad employee, contractor, and volunteer.

NOTES: As defined by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, a trespasser is any person on a part of railroad property used in railroad operations whose presence is prohibited, forbidden, or unlawful. Employees who are trespassing on railroad property are reported as trespassers. Nontrespassers are persons lawfully on that part of railroad property that is used in railroad operation (other than defined as employees, passengers, trespassers, volunteers, or contractor employees), and persons adjacent to railroad premises when they are injured as the result of the operation of a railroad. "Other" includes employees not on duty, nontrespassers off railroad property, and volunteers or contractors who are not engaged in either the operation of on-track equipment or any other safety-sensitive function for the railroad.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, 2007 Preliminary Railroad Safety Statistics Bulletin (Data as of October 2008), Table 3-5, available at http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/publicsite/Prelim.aspx as of Jan. 23, 2009.