ACCIDENT/INCIDENT BULLETIN, CALENDAR YEAR 1996

This document is prepared from accident/incident reports submitted by the railroads to the Federal Railroad Administration in accordance with Regulation 49 C.F.R. 225. Bulletin 165 is a summary of accident/incident data reported by 704 railroads for calendar year 1996. The scope of the data reported includes historical accident trends, train accidents by track classification, accidents by class of track, train accidents and mileage by month, train accidents by type of accident, train accidents and hazardous materials, accidents by state, months and causes, fatalities, injuries to employees and accidents resulting from track, roadbed and structures by cause.

• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Railroad Administration

  Office of Safety, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 1997-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 110 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash analysis; Crash data; Crash reports; Crashes; Derailments; Employees; Fatalities; Forms (Documents); Laws; Railroad crashes; Railroads
• Subject Areas: Law; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00741840
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 165
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Oct 13 1997 12:00AM