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Injury/Illness Summary - Casualty Source Data (Form 55A)
Casualties are reportable fatalities, injuries, or illnesses arising from the operation of a railroad. Casualties may be classified as either fatal or nonfatal. All casualty incidents are reported to the FRA on Form FRA F 6180.55a Injury/Illness Continuation Sheet.
This dataset is the source dataset and contains raw data values. It replaced the legacy data download (https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/publicsite/on_the_fly_download.aspx). To download data that contains data in a user-friendly human-readable format, please reference https://data.transportation.gov/Railroads/Injury-Illness-Summary-Casualty-Data/rash-pd2d.
The data dictionary can be found here: https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/kuvg-3uwp/files/8785fa80-4d47-449e-9ce7-887540a258e2?download=true&filename=casfile_EFFECTIVE_060111%20(7).pdf.
For information on how to filter and export data, please visit: https://data.transportation.gov/stories/s/Download-Export-and-Print-User-Guide/s8hj-vns8/.
To view the data release schedule, please visit: https://data.transportation.gov/stories/s/Data-Release-Schedule/qfc9-tapk/.
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| description | Casualties are reportable fatalities, injuries, or illnesses arising from the operation of a railroad. Casualties may be classified as either fatal or nonfatal. All casualty incidents are reported to the FRA on Form FRA F 6180.55a Injury/Illness Continuation Sheet. This dataset is the source dataset and contains raw data values. It replaced the legacy data download (https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/publicsite/on_the_fly_download.aspx). To download data that contains data in a user-friendly human-readable format, please reference https://data.transportation.gov/Railroads/Injury-Illness-Summary-Casualty-Data/rash-pd2d. The data dictionary can be found here: https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/kuvg-3uwp/files/8785fa80-4d47-449e-9ce7-887540a258e2?download=true&filename=casfile_EFFECTIVE_060111%20(7).pdf. For information on how to filter and export data, please visit: https://data.transportation.gov/stories/s/Download-Export-and-Print-User-Guide/s8hj-vns8/. To view the data release schedule, please visit: https://data.transportation.gov/stories/s/Data-Release-Schedule/qfc9-tapk/. |
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| identifier | https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/kuvg-3uwp |
| issued | 2023-04-21 |
| keyword |
[
"casualty",
"fatality",
"illness",
"injury",
"passenger",
"railroad employee",
"trespasser",
"worker on duty"
]
|
| landingPage | https://data.transportation.gov/stories/s/Casualty-Reports-Landing-Page/t59a-58y9/ |
| license | http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/ |
| modified | 2026-02-01 |
| programCode |
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"021:036"
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|
| publisher |
{
"name": "Federal Railroad Administration",
"@type": "org:Organization"
}
|
| theme |
[
"Railroads"
]
|
| title | Injury/Illness Summary - Casualty Source Data (Form 55A) |
