2003 Railroad Employee Fatalities: Case Studies and Analysis

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Safety Analysis
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Case Studies Casualties Fatalities Railroad Crashes Railroads Railroad Safety
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• OCLC Number:
  645267129
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Railroad Administration
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-RAIL TRANSPORTATION-Rail Safety ; NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Rail Safety
• Abstract:
  2003 Railroad Employee Fatalities: Case Studies and Analysis is designed to promote and
  
  enhance awareness of many unsafe behaviors and conditions that typically contribute to
  
  railroad employee fatalities, this report is intended to assist railroad industry stakeholders in their efforts to prevent similar tragedies. This document contains the following materials: Narrative reports which provide in-depth coverage of 2003's 16 railroad employee
  
  fatalities, helping readers to visualize the accident scene and chain of events leading up
  
  to the fatalities, and the post-accident investigation process; Summaries, preceding each narrative report, which highlight important elements of each individual fatality, particularly the possible contributing factors (PCFs); Overall findings for the 2003 fatalities which identify who the majority of fatally injured employees were (i.e. craft, job position, age group, and years of service); what most were doing at the time of the incidents; when most were fatally injured (i.e. time of year and time of day); where most incidents occurred (i.e. type of railroad); and most importantly, why most fatalities occurred in terms of PCFs; and
  
  Bar and pie charts which illustrate the above findings.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Alternate URL:
  http://www.fra.dot.gov/Pages/1784.shtml
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection Federal Railroad Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:ff9506c7c3bc10691502c2aab33f17ae7155d07f2a06da2cdea9827e938d7992
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/5796/dot_5796_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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