[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 49, Volume 4]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 49CFR225.23]



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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION

 

       CHAPTER II--FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF 

                             TRANSPORTATION

 

PART 225_RAILROAD ACCIDENTS/INCIDENTS: REPORTS CLASSIFICATION, AND 

 

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 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



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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]