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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
Total fatalities	27	19	8	8	10	^R16	15	11	7	120	^R12	13	5
Accident-related	21	14	7	7	10	15	14	11	6	7	^R10	8	3
Air fatalities	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	110	0	0	0
Accident-related	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Highway fatalities	27	17	8	8	10	^R16	15	11	7	8	^R12	13	5
Accident-related	21	12	7	7	10	15	14	11	6	5	^R10	8	3
Rail fatalities	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
Accident-related	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
Water^a fatalities	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
Other^b fatalities	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
Total injured persons	648	626	253	423	439	^R604	627	577	^R400	^R1,175	^R225	197	267
Accident-related	168	47	16	18	40	98	62	111	18	^R864	16	15	13
Air injured persons	5	8	4	39	31	23	50	57	^R33	^R33	24	20	13
Accident-related	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Highway injured persons	527	493	195	311	333	^R465	511	425	296	^R216	^R156	153	217
Accident-related	156	43	9	9	27	34	61	95	14	^R22	11	11	13
Rail injured persons	99	121	53	73	75	116	66	95	71	926	45	22	37
Accident-related	12	4	7	9	13	64	1	16	4	842	5	4	0
Water^a injured persons	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Accident-related	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
Accident-related	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total incidents	10,951	15,719	6,019	^R8,879	9,110	^R9,310	12,830	^R16,087	14,743	^R13,950	^R13,995	15,349	16,881
Accident-related	440	486	364	297	303	^R283	264	^R295	^R294	^R332	^R310	316	272
Air incidents	147	223	114	297	299	^R413	622	929	^R814	^R916	^R1,027	1,380	1,553
Accident-related	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
Highway incidents	10,063	14,161	4,752	^R7,296	7,644	^R7,759	11,080	^R13,995	^R12,764	^R11,917	^R11,861	12,968	14,281
Accident-related	330	347	302	249	249	^R245	^R215	246	^R244	^R289	^R257	264	219
Rail incidents	694	1,271	842	1,279	1,155	^R1,130	1,120	1,157	1,153	^R1,111	^R1,102	990	1,039
Accident-related	109	134	61	48	54	36	^R49	52	50	^R43	52	51	53
Water^a incidents	28	34	7	7	12	8	8	6	12	6	^R5	11	8
Accident-related	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other^bincidents	19	30	304	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
Total property damage (current $ thousands)^c	8,090	10,829	22,993	32,353	38,351	^R35,164	22,802	^R44,185	^R30,903	^R46,849	^R33,394	45,796	31,407
Accident-related	6,051	6,236	20,268	24,792	30,184	^R27,644	13,117	25,542	23,516	^R37,737	^R25,069	36,770	19,406
Air property damage	8.9	12.3	12.3	142	77	^R99	88	178	^R101	87	^R336	267	283
Accident-related	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Highway property damage	5,584	7,324	12,690	20,190	29,650	^R23,920	19,849	^R25,243	^R22,144	^R29,268	^R24,664	28,155	23,213
Accident-related	3,694	3,782	10,175	14,132	23,953	^R18,140	11,200	13,528	16,256	^R22,277	^R17,730	21,332	13,361
Rail property damage	2,488	2,952	10,274	11,952	8,469	^R11,002	2,651	18,673	8,485	^R17,374	^R8,355	16,360	7,850
Accident-related	2,357	2,357	10,094	10,660	6,231	9,378	1,916	12,014	7,260	15,460	7,339	15,438	6,045
Water^a property damage	6.1	505	3.2	70	154	143	213	92	174	120	^R38	1015	61
Accident-related	0	81	0	0	0	125	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
Accident-related	0.3	15.6	<0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

^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 $1000, therefore the total may not equal the sum.

KEY: R = revised.

NOTES: Hazardous materials information system database operations were initiated in 1971. The Office of Hazardous Materials Safety determines whether fatalities and injuries should be clarified as hazardous material-related after telephone contact with the carriers submitting incident reports.

SOURCES:
1975-85: U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Special Programs Administration, Office of HazardousMaterials Safety, Hazardous Materials Information System Database, 1999.
1990-99: Ibid. Internet site http://hazmat.dot.gov/10yearfrm.htm, as of May 2, 2000.

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