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> Safety: Crew Fatalities & Vessel Casualties
Safety: Crew Fatalities & Vessel Casualties
Crew Fatalities
The chart shows the crew fatalities series developed by the
Coast Guard - AWO Safety Partnership. The series has an average
of 17 fatalities per year, with a peak of 28 in 1997 and a
record low of nine in 2003.
The Safety Partnership's ultimate goal is to achieve zero
fatalities. For information on the Safety Partnership's current
projects on crew safety, please call Jennifer Carpenter, AWO's
Senior Vice President - Government Affairs & Policy Analysis,
at (703) 841-9300.
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Vessel Casualties
The chart shows the vessel casualty series developed by the
Coast Guard - AWO Safety Partnership. The data show the emergence
of a downward trend from the peak in 1996. The trend is more
visible in the normalized or rate series, vessel casualties
per one million trip miles (below).
Vessel casualties are incidents involving towboats, tugboats,
or barges. Specific casualties are: abandonment, allisions
(a vessel contacting a fixed object), breakaway, capsizing,
collision (contact between moving vessels), equipment failure,
explosion, fire, flooding, grounding, loss of electrical power,
loss of vessel control, sinking, and structural failure.
Source: U.S. Coast Guard
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Vessel Casualties Per One Million
Trip Miles
The chart shows the normalized or rate series for vessel
casualties, developed by the Coast Guard - AWO Safety Partnership.
A downward trend is apparent from the peak in 1996.
For more information, click here
for the technical notes on the normalized series.
Source: U.S. Coast Guard
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