Last year was the safest year in the rail industry's history based on performance measures tracked by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), the United Transportation Union (UTU) reported on its website Friday, January 18.

For the fifth fiscal year in a row, the industry posted improvements for all six safety performance measures monitored by the FRA: the rate of grade crossing incidents, human factor-caused train accidents, track-caused accidents, equipment-caused accidents, signal and miscellaneous train accidents, and non-accidental rail hazardous material releases.

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