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    • Rail Equipment Accidents

    Metadata Updated: April 15, 2026

    "This file contains reported cases of collisions, derailments, fires, explosions, acts of God, or other events involving the operation of railroad on-track equipment and involving damages exceeding the reporting threshold for the year reported. National files from 1975 through the current year are available for download. In addition, individual files by State are available for the years 1991 through the current year.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    References

    https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/publicsite/Newregulation.aspx%3Fdoc=FRAGuideforPreparingAccIncReportspubMay2011.pdf

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 15, 2026
    Data Update Frequency R/P1M

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DOT Socrata Data.json

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 15, 2026
    Publisher Federal Railroad Administration
    Maintainer
    Identifier DOT-199
    Data First Published 2010-09-29
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2026-04-14
    Category Transportation
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency R/P1M
    Agencydataseriesurl http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/publicsite/on_the_fly_download.aspx
    Agencyprogramurl http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/
    Analysisunit Form 54 Filing
    Bureau Code 021:27
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.transportation.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Categorydesignation Research
    Collectioninstrument FORM FRA F 6180.54 (OMB No. 2130-0500)
    Collection Metadata true
    Data Quality True
    Data Dictionary http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/publicsite/DownloadFStructure.aspx
    Harvest Object Id 841fc77b-bbc8-4170-9800-598de8dc1a8e
    Harvest Source Id a776e4b7-8221-443c-85ed-c5ee5db0c360
    Harvest Source Title DOT Socrata Data.json
    Homepage URL https://data.transportation.gov/d/xdpv-m434
    License https://project-open-data.cio.gov/unknown-license/
    Old Spatial Latitude/Longitude, County, State
    Phone 202-493-6483
    Program Code 021:036
    Related Documents https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/publicsite/Newregulation.aspx%3Fdoc=FRAGuideforPreparingAccIncReportspubMay2011.pdf
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 7beadc67caf7ac7e75a893df0a42b3b60b1743963d0dfcfed6f5c6fc7b315bfd
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal R/1975-01-31/P1M

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