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Table 2-6: Hazardous Materials Fatalities, Injuries, Accidents, and Property Damage Data

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	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Total fatalities	27	19	8	8	10	16	15	11	7	120	12	13	^R7	12
Accident-related	21	14	7	7	10	15	14	11	6	7	10	8	^R5	7
Air fatalities	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	110	0	0	0	0
Accident-related	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Highway fatalities	27	17	8	8	10	16	15	11	7	8	12	13	^R7	11
Accident-related	21	12	7	7	10	15	14	11	6	5	10	8	^R5	7
Rail fatalities	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1
Accident-related	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
Water^afatalities	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Accident-related	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other^bfatalities	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Accident-related	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total injured persons	648	626	253	423	439	604	627	577	400	1,175	225	197	^R252	240
Accident-related	168	47	16	18	40	98	62	111	18	864	16	15	13	16
Air injured persons	5	8	4	39	31	23	50	57	33	33	24	20	^R12	6
Accident-related	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Highway injured persons	527	493	195	311	333	465	511	425	296	216	156	153	^R205	152
Accident-related	156	43	9	9	27	34	61	95	14	22	11	11	13	15
Rail injured persons	99	121	53	73	75	116	66	95	71	926	45	22	^R35	82
Accident-related	12	4	7	9	13	64	1	16	4	842	5	4	0	1
Water^a injured persons	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
Accident-related	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other^binjured persons	15	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Accident-related	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total incidents	10,951	15,719	6,019	8,879	9,110	^R9,311	12,830	16,087	14,743	^R13,951	^R13,999	^R15,350	^R17,085	17,224
Accident-related	440	486	364	297	303	283	264	295	294	332	^R311	316	^R292	289
Air incidents	147	223	114	297	299	413	622	929	814	916	^R1,028	1,380	^R1,575	1,415
Accident-related	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1
Highway incidents	10,063	14,161	4,752	7,296	7,644	^R7,760	11,080	13,995	12,764	11,917	^R11,863	^R12,970	^R14,442	14,742
Accident-related	330	347	302	249	249	245	215	^R243	244	289	^R258	264	^R234	226
Rail incidents	694	1,271	842	1,279	1,155	1,130	1,120	1,157	1,153	^R1,112	^R1,103	^R989	^R1,060	1,052
Accident-related	109	134	61	48	54	36	49	52	50	43	52	51	^R58	62
Water^a incidents	28	34	7	7	12	8	8	6	12	6	5	11	8	15
Accident-related	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other^bincidents	19	30	304	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Accident-related	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total property damage (current $ thousands)^c	8,090	10,829	22,993	32,353	38,351	35,164	22,802	44,185	30,903	46,849	^R33,450	^R46,170	^R33,856	57,531
Accident-related	6,051	6,236	20,268	24,792	30,184	27,644	13,117	25,542	23,516	37,737	^R25,125	^R36,842	^R21,794	47,614
Air property damage	8.9	12.3	12.3	142	77	99	88	178	101	87	336	267	^R286	272
Accident-related	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	42
Highway property damage	5,584	7,324	12,690	20,190	29,650	23,920	19,849	25,243	22,144	^R29,257	^R24,720	^R28,525	^R24,485	30,619
Accident-related	3,694	3,782	10,175	14,132	23,953	18,140	11,200	13,528	16,256	22,277	^R17,786	^R21,400	^R14,610	23,593
Rail property damage	2,488	2,952	10,274	11,952	8,469	11,002	2,651	18,673	8,485	^R17,385	^R8,356	^R16,364	^R9,024	26,515
Accident-related	2,357	2,357	10,094	10,660	6,231	9,378	1,916	12,014	7,260	15,460	7,339	^R15,442	^R7,184	23,978
Water^aproperty damage	6.1	505	3.2	70	154	143	213	92	174	120	38	1,015	61	125
Accident-related	0	81	0	0	0	125	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other^bproperty damage	3.5	35	14.4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Accident-related	0.3	15.6	<0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

KEY: R = revised.

^a Water category only includes nonbulk marine. Bulk marine hazardous materials incidents are reported to the U.S. Coast Guard and are not included.

^b Other category includes freight forwarders and modes not otherwise specified.

^c Property damage under $30,000 is reported to the nearest $100. Property damage $30,000 or greater is reported to the nearest $1,000, therefore the total may not equal the sum.

NOTES: Hazardous materials transportation incidents required to be reported are defined in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), 49 CFR 171.15, 171.16 (Form F 5800.1). Hazardous materials deaths and injuries are caused by the hazardous material in commerce.

SOURCES:

1975-85: U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Special Programs Administration, Office of Hazardous Materials Safety, Hazardous Materials Information System Database, 1999.

1990: Ibid. Internet site http://hazmat.dot.gov/10yearfrm.htm, as of May 2, 2000.

1991-2000: Ibid. Internet site http://hazmat.dot.gov/files/hazmat/10year/10yearfrm.htm as of May 14, 2001.