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Safety: Crew Fatalities & Vessel Casualties
Crew Fatalities
Crew Fatalities include all deaths and missing crew members on towing vessels or barges. Deaths due to natural causes, deaths of external parties, shipyard, or shore-side workers are excluded from this measure. This chart shows the annual fatality counts from 1994-2010.
Overall, the average number of fatalities per year, from 2000 through 2010 is 10.7. Of the 7 fatalities in 2010, 3 were the result of falling overboard and 4 resulted from a vessel casualty.
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Crew Fatality Rate, 1994-2010
Crew Fatalities per 100,0001 FTE, 1994-2010
Using the "Mercer Model" that was developed with AWO-funded research, the crew fatality rate is shown on this chart. The denominator for this rate is derived from the number of towing vessels in operation, as reported by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The most recent data is from calendar year 2009. The 2010 rate is a projection.
This information can be used in comparison with other industries. For example, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the fatality rate for all workers, including office workers, is 3.5 per 100,000. Conversely, commercial fishing ranks the highest of all occupations, at 203.6.
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1. An FTE, or full time employee, is the equivalent of one person working a 40-hour work week for 50 weeks of the year
Vessel Casualties
Using a scale that was previously approved by the Safety Partnership, all towing incidents are shown here, by severity. Towing incidents include all reportable casualties, per Coast Guard regulations, that involve any towing vessels or barges. Each incident is counted only once, regardless of the number of vessels involved.
The data shows that, throughout the history of the Safety Partnership, most casualties (~89%) are low severity. Medium and high severity incidents were 7% and 4% of all incidents, respectively.
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