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1.11 - One Year Accident/Incident Overview - Combined
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ONE YEAR ACCIDENT/INCIDENT OVERVIEW BY REGION/STATE/COUNTY
Report Type - ' CALENDAR YEAR '
SELECTION: Railroad - ALL
All Regions
State - All States County - All
January To December, 2015
Reporting Level:... ALL
***IMPORTANT: Rates calculated on National Level do not display for Region or State Geography***
' CALENDAR YEAR '
TOTAL ACCIDENTS/INCIDENTS: 11,600 Number of fatal accidents/incidents 720 6.21%
Overall frequency rate: 15.75 Total train miles: 736,526,467
Total fatalities: 768 Switching miles: 91,757,614
Total nonfatal conditions: 8,828 Employee hours: 477,710,844
Total accidents/incidents is the sum of train accidents, highway-rail incidents, and other incidents.
Total accident/incident rate is the number of events times 1,000,000 divided by total train miles.
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TOTAL TRAIN ACCIDENTS: 1,906 Number of fatal train accidents 6 0.31%
Number per million train miles: 2.59 Collisions: 148 7.76%
Total fatalities: 13 Derailments: 1,345 70.57%
Total nonfatal conditions: 539 Other accidents: 413 21.67%
---------------------------Primary causes---------------------------
Human factors: 39.40% 751 Track defects: 523 27.44%
Equipment defects: 13.69% 261 Signal defects: 53 2.78%
Miscellaneous causes: 16.68% 318
Number of accidents on yard track: 1,146 60.13% of all train accidents.
Nbr per million yard train miles: 12.49 For other tracks: 1.18
Train accidents represent 16.43% of all reported events.
Number of train accidents involving passenger trains 62 3.25%
Number of train accidents that resulted in a release of hazardous material 17 0.89% of total
Number of persons evacuated 6,866 Number of rail cars releasing hazmat 66
A train accident is an event involving ontrack rail equipment that results in monetary damage to the equipment
and track above a certain threshold. Lading, clearing costs, environmental damage is not included.
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HIGHWAY-RAIL TRESPASSING INCIDENTS(not at crossings)
Crossings: 209,444 Incidents: 2,063
Number per million train miles: 2.80 Frequency per million train miles: 1.20
Total fatalities: 237 Total fatalities: 465
Total nonfatal conditions: 1,003 Total nonfatal conditions: 416
Number of fatal crossing incidents 210 10.18%
Public Crossings 129,469 With gates 46,850 Other activated crossings 21,704 Number with passive warnings 60,915
Private crossings 79,975 ***** THE COUNT OF CROSSINGS IS THE COUNT IN THE CURRENT INVENTORY *****
Highway-rail and trespassing incidents account for 91.41% of all fatalities.
Highway-rail incidents represent 17.78% of all reported events.
A highway-rail incident is any impact between a rail and a highway user at a crossing site, regardless of severity.
Includes motor vehicles and other highway/roadway/sidewalk users at both public and private crossings.
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OTHER INCIDENTS: 7,631 Number of fatal other incidents 504 6.60% of other incidents
Other incidents account for: 65.78% of all accidents/incidents
Total fatalities: 518 9 Number to employees on duty. Trespassers 465
Total nonfatal conditions: 7,286 4,175 Number to employees on duty
Other incidents include any event where that caused a death, an injury, or an occupational illness
to a railroad employee. Most fatalities in this category are to trespassers.
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EMPLOYEES ON DUTY CASES: 4,343 Frequency per 200,000 hours worked: 1.82
Total fatalities: 11 1.43% of all fatalities
Total nonfatal conditions: 4,332 49.07% of all nonfatal cases
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Passengers carried: 700,110,486 Passenger miles: 21,777,088,518
Total passenger deaths 17. Total passengers injured 1605.
The frequency of passenger cases per 100,000,000 passenger miles is 7.45 Passenger cases include all circumstances;
including getting off/on standing trains, stumbling aboard trains, assaults, train accidents, crossing incidents, etc.
A passenger mile is the movement of a passenger one mile.
Т.е. 2.8 и 1.2 — это только случаев при пересечении ж.д. на переездах, переходах.