ACCIDENT/INCIDENT OVERVIEW
SELECTION: RAILROAD - ALL / January TO December, 2000

TOTAL RAILROADS INCLUDED IN REPORT:      661

         TOTAL ACCIDENTS/INCIDENTS:   16,653
            Overall frequency rate:    13.74   Total train miles:     721,300,581
                  Total fatalities:      934      Employee hours:     490,737,222
         Total nonfatal conditions:   11,344

Total accident/incident rate is the number of events times 1,000,000
and divided by the sum of train miles and employee hours.

             TOTAL TRAIN ACCIDENTS:    2,944          Collisions:      227
    Number per million train miles:     4.08         Derailments:    2,094
                  Total fatalities:       10     Other accidents:      623
         Total nonfatal conditions:      224

                             ------Primary causes------
                     Human factors:    1,119       Track defects:    1,016
                 Equipment defects:      369      Signal defects:       66
              Miscellaneous causes:      374

 Number of accidents on yard track:    1,594    54.14% of all train accidents.
  Nbr per million yard train miles:    17.94    For other tracks:     2.13

Train accidents represent 17.68% of all reported events.

A train accident is an event involving ontrack rail equipment that results in monetary
damage to the equipment and track above a certain threshold. In 1998 this threshold
was $6,600.  Lading, clearing costs, environmental damage are not included.

                      HIGHWAY-RAIL             TRESPASSING INCIDENTS(not at crossings)
                         Incidents:    3,481
    Number per million train miles:     4.83     # per million train miles:     1.23
                  Total fatalities:      416              Total fatalities:      469
         Total nonfatal conditions:    1,182     Total nonfatal conditions:      415

Highway-rail and trespassing incidents account for 94.75% of all fatalities.
Highway-rail incidents represent 20.90% of all reported events.

A highway-rail incident is any impact between a rail and a highway user at a crossing
site, regardless of severity. Includes motor vehicles and other highway/roadway/
sidewalk users at both public and private crossings.

                   OTHER INCIDENTS:   10,228
                  Total fatalities:      508
         Total nonfatal conditions:    9,938

Other incidents include any event that caused a death or an injury to a person, or
an occupational illness to a railroad employee. Most fatalities in this category are
to trespassers.

           EMPLOYEES ON DUTY CASES:    8,336
Frequency per 200,000 hours worked:     3.40
                  Total fatalities:       24   2.57% of all fatalities
         Total nonfatal conditions:    8,312   73.27% of all nonfatal cases 

Passengers carried:    502,327,966  Passenger miles:  16,125,418,530
A passenger mile is the movement of a passenger one mile
The frequency of passenger cases per 100,000,000 passenger miles is  3.27