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/.
Organization: Department of Transportation
Last updated: 2025-09-10T23:44:26.020575
Tags: casualty, fatality, illness, injury, passenger, railroad-employee, trespasser, worker-on-duty