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Railroad Equipment Accident/Incident Source Data (Form 54)

Metadata Updated: January 3, 2026

Rail equipment accidents/incidents, collisions, derailments, fires, explosions, acts of God, or other events involving the operation of railroad on-track equipment (standing or moving) and causing reportable damages greater than the reporting threshold for the year in which the accident/incident occurred, must be reported by railroads to the FRA on Form FRA 6180.54 - Rail Equipment Accident/Incident.

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/Rail-Equipment-Accident-Incident-Data/85tf-25kj.

The data dictionary can be found here: https://datahub.transportation.gov/api/views/aqxq-n5hy/files/ea00a728-94b0-43e7-8c11-8481f13170a7?download=true&filename=accfile_EFFECTIVE_060111%20(8).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 3, 2026

Metadata Source

Harvested from DOT Socrata Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date September 10, 2025
Metadata Updated Date January 3, 2026
Publisher Federal Railroad Administration
Maintainer
Identifier https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/aqxq-n5hy
Data First Published 2023-04-04
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2026-01-03
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
Data Quality True
Harvest Object Id ec7f5118-0fc3-457a-bcc1-08ccddc08ee3
Harvest Source Id a776e4b7-8221-443c-85ed-c5ee5db0c360
Harvest Source Title DOT Socrata Data.json
Homepage URL https://data.transportation.gov/stories/s/wjun-6kqb
License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
Program Code 021:036
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 711a029a22bb99f572d310cdfff3224c591e2dead666fedbd0b5244dafc91011
Source Schema Version 1.1

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