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Table 2-15: Train Accident/Incident Injuries, Including at Highway-Rail Crossings, by Category of Person Injured: 2009

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Table 2-15: Train Accident/Incident Injuries, Including at Highway-Rail Crossings, by Category of Person Injured: 2009

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

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State Worker on duty1 Passenger on train Trespasser Non-trespasser Other
Alabama 65 4 11 21 4
Alaska 98 6 0 0 0
Arizona 51 10 16 3 3
Arkansas 82 1 14 15 5
California 239 124 64 47 33
Colorado 88 17 6 7 5
Connecticut 65 19 4 8 8
Delaware 27 1 0 7 3
District of Columbia 37 19 2 20 1
Florida 72 50 17 22 5
Georgia 95 9 27 21 2
Hawaii 0 0 0 0 0
Idaho 28 0 4 6 1
Illinois 387 194 36 161 36
Indiana 102 6 30 23 7
Iowa 63 6 10 17 6
Kansas 82 1 13 10 5
Kentucky 57 1 13 15 1
Louisiana 76 15 8 29 4
Maine 7 1 4 0 0
Maryland 44 23 5 8 9
Massachusetts 139 81 4 11 3
Michigan 72 15 9 10 5
Minnesota 98 2 11 9 2
Mississippi 38 23 14 7 0
Missouri 102 15 11 20 14
Montana 98 11 1 7 9
Nebraska 119 1 9 15 12
Nevada 10 4 2 2 1
New Hampshire 3 0 0 0 0
New Jersey 227 56 10 52 16
New Mexico 31 10 6 2 3
New York 467 165 24 241 73
North Carolina 43 34 28 5 1
North Dakota 45 4 0 7 3
Ohio 94 2 20 13 6
Oklahoma 36 1 12 12 3
Oregon 52 6 5 8 3
Pennsylvania 345 99 24 153 19
Rhode Island 3 2 0 1 0
South Carolina 23 11 8 13 1
South Dakota 11 0 6 7 1
Tennessee 69 1 12 11 12
Texas 305 25 49 69 29
Utah 27 9 1 5 3
Vermont 15 1 1 2 0
Virginia 54 46 11 15 2
Washington 124 27 7 11 10
West Virginia 62 8 4 8 7
Wisconsin 65 4 4 22 6
Wyoming 60 0 1 0 3
United States, total 4,602 1,170 578 1,178 385

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, 2009 Preliminary Railroad Safety Statistics Bulletin (Washington, DC: December 2010), table 3-5, available at http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/ as of Jun. 21, 2011.