Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
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Table 2-15: Train Accident/Incident Injuries, Including at Highway-Rail Crossings, by Category of Person Injured: 2006

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

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State Worker on duty1 Passenger on train Trespasser Non-trespasser Other
Alabama 101 2 25 23 5
Alaska 34 6 0 0 0
Arizona 64 9 29 8 7
Arkansas 96 6 9 27 3
California 329 31 86 24 53
Colorado 91 17 13 23 8
Connecticut 82 6 4 6 2
Delaware 46 3 1 5 1
District of Columbia 129 4 1 3 2
Florida 78 27 29 28 23
Georgia 105 4 25 20 13
Hawaii 2 0 0 0 0
Idaho 46 0 0 1 2
Illinois 408 120 49 85 101
Indiana 140 7 17 23 7
Iowa 89 4 9 12 4
Kansas 92 0 25 14 14
Kentucky 87 1 16 22 2
Louisiana 103 16 22 54 5
Maine 20 0 0 1 1
Maryland 43 12 2 10 1
Massachusetts 115 47 1 14 3
Michigan 98 16 3 20 2
Minnesota 103 5 11 12 6
Mississippi 37 4 12 27 4
Missouri 104 8 14 18 9
Montana 71 8 6 6 6
Nebraska 146 1 5 21 24
Nevada 27 2 7 4 1
New Hampshire 5 0 1 0 0
New Jersey 278 28 13 46 12
New Mexico 34 6 12 3 4
New York 503 106 9 146 19
North Carolina 49 18 16 18 3
North Dakota 36 2 1 7 4
Ohio 149 3 29 17 8
Oklahoma 54 1 13 26 4
Oregon 85 6 7 8 3
Pennsylvania 359 100 24 89 10
Rhode Island 14 2 1 1 0
South Carolina 34 9 16 8 4
South Dakota 24 0 4 6 0
Tennessee 77 0 8 18 14
Texas 388 24 110 94 35
Utah 32 3 0 3 1
Vermont 11 0 3 0 0
Virginia 65 28 11 10 5
Washington 106 15 14 14 14
West Virginia 46 0 1 8 4
Wisconsin 83 7 8 13 1
Wyoming 77 0 0 1 7
United States, total 5,395 724 722 1,047 461

1 Includes railroad employee, contractor, and volunteer.

NOTE: 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, Office of Safety Analysis, available at http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety, query table 4.08, as of Dec. 11, 2007.



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