Safety Improves Across-The-Board

Railway Age, March, 1999

> Safety statistics for 1998 aren't complete, but the story-so-far from the Federal Railroad Administration is encouraging. Train accidents were up slightly in the January-October 1998 period, from 3.53 per million train miles in 1997 to 3.58 last year. But employee casualties per 200,000 manhours dropped from 3.37 to 3, a decrease of 10.97%; highway-rail crossing incidents dropped from 3,225 to 2,889, a decrease of 10.4%; crossing fatalities went from 385 to 359, a 6.75% improvement; and trespasser fatalities dropped from 473 to 441, a decline of 6.77%.