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Table 2-15: Train Accident/Incident Injuries, Including at Highway-Rail Crossings, by Category of Person Injured: 2008

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Table 2-15: Train Accident/Incident Injuries, Including at Highway-Rail Crossings, by Category of Person Injured: 2008

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

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State Worker on duty1 Passenger on train Trespasser Non-trespasser Other
Alabama 77 2 18 29 4
Alaska 87 2 0 0 0
Arizona 67 11 22 10 4
Arkansas 99 2 10 18 8
California 310 180 87 61 48
Colorado 89 13 14 4 2
Connecticut 46 18 4 3 3
Delaware 39 6 4 5 1
District of Columbia 47 35 1 10 4
Florida 59 36 31 27 10
Georgia 86 14 17 28 2
Hawaii 0 0 0 0 0
Idaho 45 1 1 3 3
Illinois 429 189 40 144 56
Indiana 115 10 24 32 8
Iowa 109 4 13 20 10
Kansas 114 3 18 8 9
Kentucky 77 3 14 12 2
Louisiana 92 6 17 31 5
Maine 15 0 1 0 0
Maryland 66 19 6 10 0
Massachusetts 128 178 11 17 4
Michigan 100 9 6 19 2
Minnesota 119 5 13 14 22
Mississippi 37 32 8 32 3
Missouri 118 14 5 23 13
Montana 104 11 5 4 5
Nebraska 149 6 10 18 13
Nevada 20 3 6 4 0
New Hampshire 2 1 1 0 0
New Jersey 252 37 7 54 18
New Mexico 39 8 8 3 2
New York 408 181 19 266 58
North Carolina 51 19 28 19 3
North Dakota 52 8 4 5 3
Ohio 108 7 31 17 5
Oklahoma 48 0 9 27 2
Oregon 50 19 10 10 5
Pennsylvania 352 88 19 143 16
Rhode Island 9 2 1 2 2
South Carolina 18 6 15 11 1
South Dakota 22 0 6 2 1
Tennessee 74 2 12 19 10
Texas 357 13 77 76 27
Utah 27 5 4 3 2
Vermont 26 0 1 1 2
Virginia 71 30 11 17 3
Washington 119 14 10 14 13
West Virginia 49 0 8 6 1
Wisconsin 78 6 3 11 2
Wyoming 79 0 2 2 11
United States, total 5,134 1,258 692 1,294 428

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, 2008 Preliminary Railroad Safety Statistics Bulletin (Washington, DC: 2009 December issue), table 3-5, available at http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/publicsite/Prelim.aspxhttp://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/publicsite/Prelim.aspx as of May 05, 2010.