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FRA Railroad Safety

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FRA Railroad Safety — Federal Railroad Administration (US DOT) Office of Safety Analysis accident/incident data, served via Socrata SODA on the USDOT open-data portal (data.transportation.gov). Two datasets: Form 54 — Rail Equipment Accident/Incident (~224K rows, 1975–present: derailments, collisions, and other rail equipment accidents, with railroad, location, damage cost, casualties, cause, and a free-text narrative) and Form 57 — Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Accident/Incident (collisions between rail equipment and highway users at grade crossings). Search and aggregate by state, accident type, railroad, and date. Note: numeric/date fields are returned as strings; a native GeoJSON `location` Point exists alongside latitude/longitude fields. No auth.

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About this source

FRA Railroad Safety — Federal Railroad Administration (US DOT) Office of Safety Analysis accident/incident data, served via Socrata SODA on the USDOT open-data portal (data.transportation.gov). Two datasets: Form 54 — Rail Equipment Accident/Incident (~224K rows, 1975–present: derailments, collisions, and other rail equipment accidents, with railroad, location, damage cost, casualties, cause, and a free-text narrative) and Form 57 — Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Accident/Incident (collisions between rail equipment and highway users at grade crossings). Search and aggregate by state, accident type, railroad, and date. Note: numeric/date fields are returned as strings; a native GeoJSON `location` Point exists alongside latitude/longitude fields. No auth.

Connector ID fra-railroad-safety

Provenance

PublisherFRA Railroad Safety
API basehttps://data.transportation.gov/

Freshness & coverage

FreshnessFreshness not declared
GeographicNot declared
TemporalNot declared
AuthenticationNo credentials required

› Methods (6)

Technical detail for developers: parameters, pagination, units, and freshness per method.

  • searchAccidents

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    Search Form 54 rail equipment accidents by state, accident type, railroad, and date

    state code or name; railroad code (BNSF) or name part; newest first.

  • getAccidentById

    read

    Single Form 54 rail equipment accident record by its accident number

    Required paramsaccidentNumber

    accidentNumber required; returns found and the Form 54 record.

  • getAccidentStats

    read

    Grouped counts of Form 54 accidents (e.g. by accident type, state, railroad, or year)

    groupBy any column; optional state; returns groups sorted by count.

  • countAccidents

    read

    Count-only of Form 54 accidents matching optional state and accident-type filters

    Optional state and accidentType filters; returns count.

  • searchGradeCrossingIncidents

    read

    Search Form 57 highway-rail grade-crossing incidents by state

    state accepts code or full name; limit max 1000; newest first.

  • getServiceInfo

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    Static API overview — the two datasets, SoQL filters, string-typed fields, and Socrata token note