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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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Provenance

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

Freshness & coverage

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Methods (6)

  • searchAccidents

    read

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

    Input schema
    {
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "state": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "TX"
      ]
    },
    "accidentType": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "Derailment"
      ]
    },
    "railroad": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "dateFrom": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "2024-01-01"
      ]
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "examples": [
        50
      ]
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

    Filter state, type, railroad, or date; limit max 1000; newest first.

  • getAccidentById

    read

    Single Form 54 rail equipment accident record by its accident number

    Input schema
    {
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "accidentNumber": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "0326HO023"
      ]
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

    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)

    Input schema
    {
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "groupBy": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "accidenttype"
      ]
    },
    "state": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "TX"
      ]
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

    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

    Input schema
    {
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "state": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "TX"
      ]
    },
    "accidentType": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "Derailment"
      ]
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

    Optional state and accidentType filters; returns count.

  • searchGradeCrossingIncidents

    read

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

    Input schema
    {
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "state": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "TX"
      ]
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "examples": [
        50
      ]
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

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

  • getServiceInfo

    read

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

    Input schema
    {
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {},
  "additionalProperties": false
}