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Table 2-41: Train Fatalities, Injuries, and Accidents by Type of Accident(a)

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  1980 1985 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 (R) 2013 2014
Fatalities, total 29 8 10 19 6 67 12 14 25 18 4 9 10 6 15 4 13 33 6 9 27 4 8 6 9 11 5
Derailments 8 2 2 10 2 53 2 2 6 2 1 1 2 1 7 1 2 2 3 1 0 1 2 1 5 8 0
Collisions 20 6 8 5 1 14 8 7 16 10 1 7 1 4 4 0 8 6 0 4 26 0 1 4 4 1 2
Other 1 0 0 4 3 0 2 5 3 6 2 1 7 1 4 3 3 25 3 4 1 3 5 1 0 2 3
Injuries, total 665 476 451 326 171 308 262 294 281 185 129 129 275 310 1,884 232 347 790 222 312 318 127 110 (R) 216 462 328 138
Derailmentsb 286 197 272 174 71 179 120 90 98 111 61 41 121 113 1,691 121 104 236 97 72 39 43 49 29 415 268 52
Collisions 341 223 139 103 59 87 118 151 146 55 32 62 89 145 151 56 160 101 85 188 108 36 31 (R) 74 19 37 67
Other 38 56 40 49 41 42 24 53 37 19 36 26 65 52 42 55 83 453 40 52 171 48 30 113 28 23 19
Accidents, total 8,205 3,275 2,879 2,658 2,359 2,611 2,504 2,459 2,443 2,397 2,575 2,768 2,983 3,023 2,738 3,019 3,385 3,266 2,998 2,693 2,481 1,912 (R) 1,902 (R) 2,028 (R) 1,765 1,849 1,828
Derailments 6,442 2,495 2,146 1,936 1,734 1,930 1,825 1,742 1,816 1,741 1,757 1,961 2,112 2,234 1,989 2,133 2,435 2,305 2,197 1,934 1,789 1,370 1,333 (R) 1,467 (R) 1,294 1,310 1,284
Collisions 1,201 366 315 261 207 205 240 235 205 202 168 205 238 220 192 198 237 274 201 208 192 135 127 158 154 159 145
Other 562 414 418 461 418 476 439 482 422 454 650 602 633 569 557 688 713 687 600 551 500 407 (R) 442 (R) 403 (R) 317 380 399

KEY: R = revised.

a Excludes highway-rail grade crossing accidents.

b In 2002, 1,441 injures were due to a single derailment in North Dakota involving hazardous materials.

NOTE

This table includes information for both freight and passenger railroad operations. It is train accidents only.

SOURCE

U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Safety Analysis, Train Accidents by Type and Major Cause from Form FRA F 6180.54, table 3.16, Accident Summary Tables, available at http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/ as of May 23, 2016.