FRANK MAIGH DIXON CHIEF STATISTICIAN BULLETINS OF THE BUREAU OF RAILWAY ECONOMICS 1. Summary of Revenues and Expenses of Steam Roads in the United States for July, 1910. (Monthly Report Series, Bulletin No. 1.) 2. Summary of Revenues and Expenses of Steam Roads in the United States for August, 1910. (Monthly Report Series, Bulletin No. 2.) 3. Summary of Revenues and Expenses of Steam Roads in the United States for September, 1910. (Monthly Report Series, Bulletin No. 3.) 4. A Comparative Statement of Physical Valuation and Capitaliza- tion. 5. Preliminary Bulletin for November, 1910 — Revenues and Ex- penses. 6. Railway Traffic Statistics. 7. Summary of Revenues and Expenses of Steam Roads in the United States for October ,1910. (Monthly Report Series, Bulletin No. 4.) 8. Summary of Revenues and Expenses of Steam Roads in the United States for November, 1910. (Monthly Report Series, Bulletin No. 5.) 9. Summary of Revenues and Expenses of Steam Roads in the United States for December, 1910. (Monthly Report Series, Bulletin No. 6.) 10. Summary of Revenues and Expenses of Steam Roads in the United States for January, 1911. 11. Comment on the Decision in the Western No. 3500. (Out of Print.) Advanced Rate Case, 12. Summary of Revenues and Expenses of Steam Roads in the United States for February, 1911. 13. Summary of Revenues and Expenses of Steam Roads in the United States for March, 1911. ( Continued .) The numbering of the monthly bulletins as a separate series was abandoned with the December, 1910, issue. Since then all bulletins issued by the Bureau have been given a consecutive number only. Analysis of the Accident Statistics of the Interstate Commerce Commission for the year ending June 30, 1911 WASHINGTON, D. C. November, 1911 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 https://archive.org/details/analysisofaccide01 f ; % */& ... ^ 5 It should be noted that many of the casualties resulting from derail- ment, which are included among those for which railways may have been responsible, are due to malicious obstruction of tracks and to negligence of trainmen and signalmen. They are not tabulated here because the report of the Commission does not separate them into those of passengers and employees. The total number of accidents from these causes amounts to 52 deaths and 684 injuries. It may further be remarked that many of the accidents to em- ployees, such as those resulting from coupling cars, are due to negli- gence of the employees themselves, but the statistics do not permit of further analysis along this line. It should also be noted that many of the injuries are relatively slight, the only requirement in order to get them into the statistics being that the employee must be incapacitated for work for at least three days in the aggregate during the ten days immediately following the accident. For example, the highest single class of injuries from coupling cars, 907, results in “contusion or lacer- ation of fingers.” From Press Notice issued by the Interstate Commerce Commission concerning railway accidents for the year ending June 30, 1911 : “This bulletin closes the first year’s record of accidents under the law of May 6, 1910. It shows the total number of casual- ties for the year ending June 30, 1911, to be 160,555 ( 10,396 killed and 150,159 injured). Of this number, 439 killed and 79,237 injured are classed under the head of “Industrial Acci- dents,” which do not involve the movement of cars or engines on rails. During the year there was a total of 5,287 persons killed and 5,614 injured while trespassing on the property of the railroad, walking on the tracks or stealing rides on trains. “There is a noticeable decrease in the number of passengers killed during the year as compared with the previous year, being 356 against 421. “This bulletin gives the total number of employees in the service of the railroad companies on June 30, 1911, as 1,648,033. “During the year ending June 30, 1911, there was one em- ployee killed to every 458 employed, and one employee injured to every 13 employed.” Pol 510 3 75 B 1*1 ft 'H-o, S yf i X - G 'i S ANALYSIS OF THE ACCIDENT STATISTICS OF THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1911. In view of the fact that the press report of railway accidents for the year ending June 30, 1911, given out from the offices of the Interstate Commerce Commission did not sufficiently analyze the figures to bring out their significance and avoid the danger of misunderstanding, a further analysis has been made by the Bureau of Railway Economics and is herewith submitted. It is to be regretted that these figures aannot be related to the number of passengers carried or the number of trains, but statistics of traffic for the year ending June 30, 1911, will not be available for several months. Particular attention is called to the fact that the number of passengers on passenger trains killed during the year, for whose deaths the railways were probably responsi- ble, is only 96. At the end of this bulletin there is inserted the portion of the press notice of the Interstate Commerce Commission referred to that relates to the statistics for the fiscal year 1911. Total Statistics of Accidents. Killed. Injured. Total casualties 10,396 150,159 From this total deduct — Killed. Injured. Trespassers 5,284 5,614 Other persons (not passengers or employees) 1,154 5,073 6,438 10,687 Leaving passengers and emplovees ■ * 3.958 139472 Of which passengers comprise 356 13433 And employees comprise ....... s,6oe 126,030 P61510 Accidents to Passengers. Total casualties Deduct passengers on freight trains And newsboys, express and mail clerks, Pullman employees, etc. . Killed. Injured. 1 8 649 57 i,39i Killed. 356 75 Leaving as passengers proper on passenger trains. . . 281 Deduct accidents for which railways are not re- sponsible, such as passengers coming in contact with obstructions, getting on and off cars, being run over in yards and on crossings 185 Number of passenger accidents on passenger trains for which railways were probably re- sponsible 96 Accidents to Employees. Killed. Total casualties 3,602 Killed. Injured. Deduct industrial accidents on bridges, at stations, shops, etc.. . 439 79,237 Employees not on duty 292 954 Falling from or getting on or off cars or engines in cases where railways evidently are not re- sponsible 453 10,799 Being struck or run over by en- gine or car in yards, at crossings and elsewhere 1,217 1,91 1 2,401 Casualties to employees for which railways may have been responsible 1,201 Total passengers and employees killed for whose deaths railways may have been responsible. . . . 1,297 , 3 Injured. L3,433 2,040 IL393 5-737 5,656 Injured. 126,039 92,901 33,!38 $£P 1 r 385 B95£ Bureau c Anal;} >B no . 23 >f Railw rsis of P61510 b;j Economics tlie Accident Statistics of the Inter ... SEP ; ; ^ P31510 1 385 B952B no. 23 BULLETINS OF THE BUREAU OF RAILWAY ECONOMICS ( Continued .) 14. Summary of Revenues and Expenses of Steam Roads in the United States for April, 1911. 15. The Conflict Between Federal and State Regulation of the Rail- ways. 16. Summary of Revenues and Expenses of Steam Roads in the United States for May, 1911. 1 7. Railway Wage Increases for the Year Ending June 30, 1911. Retrenchment in the Railway Labor Force in 1911. 18. Capitalization and Dividends of the Railways of Texas, Year Ending June 30, 1909. 19. Summary of Revenues and Expenses of Steam Roads in the United States for June, 1911. 20. Summary of Revenues and Expenses of Steam Roads in the United States for July, 1911. 21. The Cost of Transportation on the Erie Canal and by Rail. 22. Summary of Revenues and Expenses of Steam Roads in the United States for August, 1911. 23. Analysis Of the Accident Statistics of the Interstate Commerce Commission for the Year Ending June 30, 191©.