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    • Injury/Illness Summary - Casualty Source Data (Form 55A)

    Metadata Updated: January 1, 2026

    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/.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date September 10, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date January 1, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DOT Socrata Data.json

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date September 10, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date January 1, 2026
    Publisher Federal Railroad Administration
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/kuvg-3uwp
    Data First Published 2023-04-21
    Data Last Modified 2026-01-01
    Category Railroads
    Public Access Level public
    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
    Harvest Object Id ef89a47d-162b-4931-bdcf-4a6dd09de035
    Harvest Source Id a776e4b7-8221-443c-85ed-c5ee5db0c360
    Harvest Source Title DOT Socrata Data.json
    Homepage URL https://data.transportation.gov/stories/s/Casualty-Reports-Landing-Page/t59a-58y9/
    License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
    Program Code 021:036
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash f75e9802ba07dfc91ce5d6c560a7f8eaa95fb91919674859b9b77b5fbd591435
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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