Rail Safety-Related Fatalities and Hospitalizations in Queensland, 2009-2016

Historical data from 2009 to 2016 documents rail safety-related fatalities and hospitalizations on Queensland's rail network, excluding suicides, assaults, and natural causes. The Department of Transport and Main Roads compiled this legacy dataset before regulatory responsibility transferred to the Office of the National Rail Safety Regulator in 2017. It is provided in CSV format under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal trends in rail safety incidents based on the 2009-2016 date range
• Benchmark Queensland's historical rail safety performance against other regions based on the described incident types
• Study the impact of regulatory changes on incident reporting based on the transfer from TMR to ONRSR

Strengths

• Covers a specific 8-year period from 2009 to 2016
• Focuses on rail safety incidents by excluding suicides, assaults, and natural causes

Limitations

• Data is described as legacy and has not been updated since 2016
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR), Queensland

Time Range

2009 to 2016

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 03:34:06.030176; freshness should be verified

Geography

Queensland, Australia rail network