[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 4]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR225.23]

[Page 317-318]
 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
       CHAPTER II--FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF 
                             TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 225_RAILROAD ACCIDENTS/INCIDENTS: REPORTS CLASSIFICATION, AND 
INVESTIGATIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 225.23  Joint operations.

    (a) Any reportable death, injury, or illness of an employee arising 
from an accident/incident involving joint operations must be reported on 
Form FRA F 6180.55a by the employing railroad.
    (b) In all cases involving joint operations, each railroad must 
report on Form FRA F 6180.55a the casualties to all persons on its train 
or other on-track equipment. Casualties to railroad

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employees must be reported by the employing railroad regardless of 
whether the employees were on or off duty. Casualties to all other 
persons not on trains or on-track equipment must be reported on Form FRA 
F 6180.55a by the railroad whose train or equipment is involved. Any 
person found unconscious or dead, if such condition arose from the 
operation of a railroad, on or adjacent to the premises or right-of-way 
of the railroad having track maintenance responsibility must be reported 
by that railroad on Form FRA F 6180.55a.
    (c) In rail equipment accident/incident cases involving joint 
operations, the railroad responsible for carrying out repairs to, and 
maintenance of, the track on which the accident/incident occurred, and 
any other railroad directly involved in the accident/incident, each must 
report the accident/incident on Form FRA F 6180.54.

[39 FR 43224, Dec. 11, 1974, as amended at 42 FR 1221, Jan. 6, 1977; 68 
FR 10138, Mar. 3, 2003]