---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 225.19"
title: "49"
number: "225.19"
heading: "Primary groups of accidents/incidents."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/225.19"
---

# §225.19. Primary groups of accidents/incidents.

- (a) **For reporting purposes reportable railroad accidents/incidents are divided into three groups—**
- (b) **Group I—Highway-rail grade crossing.** Each highway-rail grade crossing accident/incident must be reported to the FRA on Form FRA F 6180.57, regardless of the extent of damages or whether a casualty occurred. In addition, whenever a highway-rail grade crossing accident/incident results in damages greater than the current reporting threshold to railroad on-track equipment, signals, track, track structures, or roadbed, that accident/incident shall be reported to the FRA on Form FRA F 6180.54. For reporting purposes, damages include labor costs and all other costs to repair or replace in kind damaged on-track equipment, signals, track, track structures, or roadbed, but do not include the cost of clearing a wreck.
- (c) **Group II—Rail equipment.** Rail equipment accidents/incidents are collisions, derailments, fires, explosions, acts of God, and other events involving the operation of on-track equipment (standing or moving) that result in damages higher than the current reporting threshold to railroad on-track equipment, signals, tracks, track structures, or roadbed, including labor costs and costs for acquiring new equipment and material.
- (d) **Group III—Death, injury, or occupational illness.** Each death, injury, or occupational illness that is a new case and meets the general reporting criteria listed in [paragraphs (d)(1) through (6)](#d-1..d-6) of this section shall be reported to FRA on Form FRA F 6180.55a, “Railroad Injury and Illness Summary (Continuation Sheet)” if an event or exposure arising from the operation of a railroad is a discernable cause of the resulting condition or a discernable cause of a significant aggravation to a pre-existing injury or illness. The event or exposure arising from the operation of a railroad need only be one of the discernable causes; it need not be the sole or predominant cause. The general injury/illness reporting criteria are as follows:
  - (1) Death to any person;
  - (2) **Injury to any person that results in—**
    - (i) Medical treatment;
    - (ii) Significant injury diagnosed by a physician or other licensed health care professional even if it does not result in death, medical treatment or loss of consciousness of any person; or
    - (iii) Loss of consciousness;
  - (3) **Injury to a railroad employee that results in—**
    - (i) A day away from work;
    - (ii) Restricted work activity or job transfer; or
    - (iii) Significant injury diagnosed by a physician or other licensed health care professional even if it does not result in death, medical treatment, loss of consciousness, a day away from work, restricted work activity or job transfer of a railroad employee;
  - (4) **Occupational illness of a railroad employee that results in—**
    - (i) A day away from work;
    - (ii) Restricted work activity or job transfer;
    - (iii) Loss of consciousness; or
    - (iv) Medical treatment;
  - (5) Significant illness of a railroad employee diagnosed by a physician or other licensed health care professional even if it does not result in death, a day away from work, restricted work activity or job transfer, medical treatment, or loss of consciousness;
  - (6) **Illness or injury that—**
    - (i) **Meets the application of any of the following specific case criteria—**
      - (A) Needlestick or sharps injury to a railroad employee;
      - (B) Medical removal of a railroad employee;
      - (C) Occupational hearing loss of a railroad employee;
      - (D) Occupational tuberculosis of a railroad employee;
      - (E) Musculoskeletal disorder of a railroad employee if this disorder is reportable under one or more of the general reporting criteria; or
    - (ii) **Is a covered data case.**
- (e) **Notice.** No later than November 30 of each year, the Administrator will publish a notice on FRA's website announcing the reporting threshold that will take effect on January 1 of the following calendar year.

## Notes

### Amendments

[39 FR 43224, Dec. 11, 1974]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 103, 322(a), 20103, 20107, 20901-20902, 21301, 21302, 21311; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note; and 49 CFR 1.89.

### Source

Source: 39 FR 43224, Dec. 11, 1974, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[39 FR 43224, Dec. 11, 1974]