About this Dataset

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

Tables

Table 1

@usgov.dot_gov_injury_illness_summary_casualty_source_data_form_55a.table_1

30.14 MB
1,144,600 rows
50 columns

CREATE TABLE table_1 (
  "iyr" DOUBLE,
  "imo" BIGINT,
  "railroad" VARCHAR,
  "incdtno" VARCHAR,
  "typpers" VARCHAR,
  "jobcode" VARCHAR,
  "natinj" VARCHAR,
  "location" VARCHAR,
  "ifatal" VARCHAR,
  "occode" VARCHAR,
  "tcode" VARCHAR,
  "age" DOUBLE,
  "daysabs" DOUBLE,
  "daysres" DOUBLE,
  "dummy" VARCHAR,
  "state" DOUBLE,
  "typrr" VARCHAR,
  "dummy1" VARCHAR,
  "region" DOUBLE,
  "dummy2" VARCHAR,
  "narrlen" DOUBLE,
  "casfatal" VARCHAR,
  "cas57" VARCHAR,
  "cas54" VARCHAR,
  "dummy3" DOUBLE,
  "day" BIGINT,
  "year4" BIGINT,
  "timehr" BIGINT,
  "timemin" BIGINT,
  "ampm" VARCHAR,
  "county" VARCHAR,
  "cntycd" DOUBLE,
  "stcnty" VARCHAR,
  "alcohol" VARCHAR,
  "drug" VARCHAR,
  "phyact" VARCHAR,
  "loca" VARCHAR,
  "locb" VARCHAR,
  "locc" VARCHAR,
  "event" DOUBLE,
  "tools" VARCHAR,
  "injcaus" VARCHAR,
  "hzmexpos" VARCHAR,
  "terminat" VARCHAR,
  "narr1" VARCHAR,
  "narr2" VARCHAR,
  "narr3" VARCHAR,
  "coverdata" VARCHAR,
  "latitude" DOUBLE,
  "longitud" DOUBLE
);