While rail wrecks like the one in East Palestine, Ohio, garner the headlines and turn the national dialogue to regulations, federal data shows that such mishaps have declined over the past three decades.
Numbers from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics show that since 1990, rail incidents have accounted for about 5% of the more than 519,100 incidents involving hazardous materials.
Most incidents (87.6%) were classified as “highway incidents.”
There is no single definition of PSR, which generally aims to increase railroads’ efficiency and reduce their costs, but it may include longer trains and fewer locomotives and employees per train.
A total of 17 cars derailed in the Metuchen mishap, including at least one car hauling chlorine gas; no one was killed or hurt in the derailment, congressional records show.
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