{"meta":{"dataset":"rail-casualties","title":"Railroad casualties and crossing incidents by county (FRA Forms 55a, 57 and 54)","version":"1.0.0","doi":"10.5281/zenodo.23753016","doiUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23753016","conceptDoi":"10.5281/zenodo.23753015","license":"CC BY 4.0","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Source: Probative, Railroad casualties and crossing incidents by county (FRA Forms 55a, 57 and 54), version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23753016, licensed CC BY 4.0.","citation":"Probative. (2026). Railroad casualties and crossing incidents by county (FRA Forms 55a, 57 and 54) (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23753016","disclaimer":"Not legal advice. These are counts of events railroads reported to the Federal Railroad Administration, kept for research and market sizing. A report is not a finding of fault, and it says nothing about whether anyone has a claim; a railroad employee's injury claim has its own federal rules and deadlines. Questions about an injury are for a licensed attorney.","notice":"Probative is a marketing firm, not a law firm; not legal advice.","lastChecked":"2026-10-29","url":"https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/rail-casualties/changes.json","humanUrl":"https://probativegrowth.com/data/rail-casualties/","statusCodes":{"P":"primary source","S":"secondary source","D":"ABA model default","U":"open question"}},"changes":[{"id":"rail-casualties-2026-10-29-first","date":"2026-10-29","jurisdiction":"US","records":["rail-casualties:US"],"status":"P","title":"Railroad casualties and crossing incidents by county first published","summary":"Railroad casualties, highway-rail crossing incidents and train accidents reported to the Federal Railroad Administration, 2021 through July 2026, for every county with a report, every state and the US: 41,307 casualties in all.","source":{"label":"FRA Form 55a casualty data","url":"https://data.transportation.gov/d/bx7m-yn3v"},"dataset":"rail-casualties"}]}