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A safety analysis of a specific location requires a knowledge of 'base accident rates', also known as 'expected values', for identifying abnormal accident patterns at the study location. The base accident rates will allow an agency to objectively determin...

An examination of the complete list of High Accident Locations in Dublin City showed that a number of urban arterial streets had a higher than average accident rate. It was decided to examine accident patterns on these streets with a view to determining t...

The report is a compilation of avalanche accident summaries. The summaries give location, dates, weather factors, accident summary, rescue and comments.

The report is a summary of a highway accident investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board. The accident location and date is Alexandria, Virginia, April 4, 1987.

In Belgium, traffic safety is currently one of the govemment's highest priorities. Identifying and profiling black spots and black zones in terms of accident related data and location characteristics must provide new insights into the complexity and causes of road accidents which, in ram, provide valuable input for government actions. ...

... Accession Number : ADA225225. Title : Location of Commercial Aircraft Accidents/Incidents Relative to Runways. Descriptive Note : Final rept. ...

This layer displays the location of deer/vehicle accidents on the Savannah River Site (SRS) from 1990-2004. The SRS is located near the city of Aiken, SC. Location information was ... ...

The tendency for traffic accidents to cluster around particular locations on a highway network is well known. These 'blackspots', as they are termed, are viewed as prime candidates for remedial works by most highway authorities. The relevance and practica...

Investigation of transportation accidents usually involves some measurement of physical evidence at the scene. Accurate accident scene data facilitates reconstruction of the accident events and possible determination of the cause. The Calspan Scene Measurement System combines computer technology with civil engineering to provide a ...

The report is a summary of a hazardous material/railroad accident investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board. The accident location and date is Miamisburg, Ohio, July 8, 1986.

The research documented in the report involved a review of legal and insurance issues relative to off-site accident investigation locations, referred to as Accident Investigation Sites (AISs), through library searches and contact with a limited number of ...

The publication contains a report of a pipeline accident investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board. The accident location and date is Chicago Heights, Illinois, March 13, 1986.

The publication contains a report of a highway accident investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board. The accident location and date is Largo, Maryland, September 6, 1985.

Information on traffic accidents is collected on a systematic basis for the whole National Route system. While it is accepted that human error has the predominant role in the causation of traffic accidents, there is no doubt that road layout is a contribu...

The Severe Accident Risk Reduction Program (SARRP) has completed a revised calculation of the risk to the general public from severe accidents at the Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, Unit 2. The power plant, located in southeastern Pennsylvania, is oper...

The Severe Accident Risk Reduction Program (SARRP) has completed a revised calculation of the risk to the general public from severe accidents at the Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, Unit 2. The power plant, located in southeastern Pennsylvania, is oper...

The study was done to determine if median plantings influence the accident rate. The median, cross-median and overturned vehicle accident rates were determined for locations with medians having no barrier and cable barrier with and without plantings. Four...

The liberation of radioactive materials into various containment locations during a severe accident creates a radiation field that may have a significant impact on the accident progression. High radiation may not only impair the functioning of important e...

...ALCOHOL AND DRUG USE Post-Accident Toxicological Testing § 219...of an employee fatality in an accident or incident described...Date and location of the accident or incident; (2) Railroad...required for toxicological analysis in the case of a...

...response to� (1) Aircraft incidents and accidents; (2) Bomb incidents...plan of the location of an aircraft accident, the number of persons involved...practicable, for the rescue of aircraft accident victims from...

safety analyses [1]. Another evaluates the use of R2 to evaluate goodness of fit of accident predictionGIS-BASED ACCIDENT LOCATION AND ANALYSIS SYSTEM (GIS-ALAS) PROJECT REPORT: PHASE 1 Principal: ArcView-ALAS Developer's Guide Appendix D: A Record (Accident Information) Database Documentation

The New York City plan for handling radiation accidents relies in the main on control at the accident scene by the Police Department, hazard evaluation by the Health Department and Atomic Energy Commission radiation specialists, a communication plan using telephone and Civil Defense two-way radio, and advance information on storage ...

exact occupant locations were not known for this accident due to the large number of occupants on the bus and the large loss of life. Therefore, a simulated occupant, representing...

... In the PEPCON accident, the nearest residences to the plant were located at distances much greater than the IBD. However ...

be considered to be the location of the accident, allowing drivers to avoid the effects of an accident even exchanged over the network. This is accomplished through the application of 1) accident alert messages sent from the site of an accident or other obstruction in the road and 2) ...

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The purpose of the work described in this paper was to evaluate the adequacy of criticality accident alarm system (CAAS) coverage of several buildings at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PORTS) located in Piketon, Ohio. An analysis was performed in which the General Monte Carlo N-Particle Transport Code (MCNP) was used to model several of the ...

The preliminary report of nuclear accident at Chernobyl, in URSS is presented. The Chernobyl site is located geographically and the RBMK type reactors - initials of Russian words which mean high power pressure tube reactors are described. The conditions o...

During the twelve months ending October 31, 1965, there were 122 fatal general aviation accidents in the Western Region in which the Regional Flight Surgeon's office was notified and the wreckage was located within one week. Autopsies were obtained in 86 ...

This program reenacts actual fuel fire accidents at three different refueling locations involving aircraft, fuel trucks, and fuel storage areas. It also enacts another possible accident involving aircraft in hot refueling which may occur in the future.

A revised calculation of the risk to the general public from severe accidents at the Zion Power Station, Unit 1 has been completed. The power plant, located on the western shore of Lake Michigan on the outskirts of Zion, is operated by the Commonwealth Ed...

A revised calculation of the risk to the general public from severe accidents at the Zion Power Station, Unit 1 has been completed. The power plant, located on the western shore of Lake Michigan on the outskirts of Zion, is operated by the Commonwealth Ed...

A revised calculation of the risk to the general public from severe accidents at the Zion Power Station, Unit 1 has been completed. The power plant, located on the western shore of Lake Michigan on the outskirts of Zion, is operated by the Commonwealth Ed...

A prototype kit developed for medical teams engaged in aircraft accident investigation provides all essential items needed: to collect biological samples; to obtain photographic evidence; to record the relative locations of victims and their life support ...

Investigations Accident Date Location 6/24/2011 Miriam, NV Collision between Amtrak train and truck 6/13/2011 Oswego, IL Crash of vintage B-17 5/31/2011 Doswell, VA Sky Express...

Geographical Information System (GIS) technology has been a popular tool for visualization of accident data and analysis of hot spots in highways. Many traffic agencies have been using GIS for accident analysis. Accident analysis studies aim at the identification of high rate accident locations ...

Sponsored by Greenpeace, this web page briefly discusses the history of accidents related to nuclear weapons. An introduction gives statistics about accidents in the former Soviet Union and the United States between 1950 and 1993. The web page presents a list of 23 accidents involving Soviet Union and United States nuclear armed ships, ...

A computer modeling code, CRIT8, was written to allow prediction of the radiological doses to workers and members of the public resulting from these postulated maximum-effect accidents. The code accounts for the relationships of the initial parent radionuclide inventory at the time of the accident to the growth of radioactive daughter products, and ...

In order to estimate the potential risks due to carbon fibers (CF) released from aircraft accidents, it was necessary to quantify the probability of an accident or incident at a major hub airport. This probability was contingent upon various conditions surrounding the incident including the phase of operation, aircraft type, and the weather conditions. The ...

Operating environments, such as road type, road location, and time of day, play an important role in the observed accident rates of heavy trucks used in general commerce. These same factors influence the accident rate of the Armored Tractor/Safe Secure Trailer (AT/SST) used by the Department of Energy to transport hazardous cargos ...

Accidents in the chemical industry can have serious consequences for workers, communities, and the environment and are thus highly relevant to public health. This article is the result of an occupational surveillance project involving several public institutions. We analyze 800 work-related accidents that resulted in injuries, environmental damage, or loss ...

The MELCOR severe accident code version 1.8.4QK has been employed to calculate the timing of events and source terms released into the environment for several hypothetical severe accidents as Unit 1 of the Juragua VVER 440-213 plant, located near Cienfuegos, Cuba. Different severe accidents were simulated, and ...

The evaluation of the dose that a person received in a criticality accident can be difficult. Most accidents have occurred when the person was not wearing nuclear accident dosimetry and since the NRC no longer requires these dosimeters, future dose evaluations may have to be based on body activations and gamma-to-neutron dose ratios. ...

... When it arrives at the accident location, the tele-ECG system is placed on the victim at the same minute the paramedic, via radio, asks for ...

... Abstract : The nuclear accident at Three Mile Island (TMI) on March 28, 1979 ... group subjects were from Frederick, MD located over eighty miles away ...

... In other cases, the poor location of bleed valves has almost resulted in accidents when dis- ... operating them. They especially should avoid ...

ELT Failures from NTSB Factual Report Accident/Incident ...... climate is unforgiving to those who encounter its harshness in a survival situation ...

Other tests and analyses are ongoing at other locations. The Columbia accident has renewed interest in an early Langley on-orbit tile repair concept. ...

Analysis of 150 years of accident news writing in the Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald is presented, with the aim of uncovering the genesis of the "hard" news story and locating the practice of news writing in a historical context. Parallels are suggested between the nature of accident stories and the role and concerns of print media ...

of Accident: December 13, 2001 Time: 5:46 a.m. central standard time Railroad: Union Pacific Railroad Company Washington, D.C. 20594 Railroad Accident Brief Accident No.: DCA-02-FR-002 Location: Pacific, Missouri Date, 2001, three Union Pacific (UP) freight trains were involved in a collision and derailment

The publication contains a listing of all U.S. civil aviation accidents/incidents occurring in calendar year 1975, sorted by aircraft make and model. Included are the file number, aircraft registration number, date and location of the accident, aircraft m...

The publication contains a listing of all U.S. civil aviation accidents/incidents occurring in calendar year 1974, sorted by aircraft make and model. Included are the file number, aircraft registration number, date and location of the accident, aircraft m...

This article reviews the April 26, 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl. The information presented was gathered through talks between the author and scientists, citizens, and hospital workers in Belarus and Ukraine, as well as from library research. What is currently believed to have occurred at the time of the accident is related. The short and long term health effects of the ...

Fully 0.5 percent of the accidents on government-owned roads reported to the police occur at places where road work is being done, while the corresponding figure for Stockholm is nearly 2 percent, statistics show. On the other hand, accidents at road-work...

The report is a summary of an aircraft accident investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board. The accident location and date is Travis Air Force Base, California, April 8, 1987.

Accidents reported on the 22 1/2 mile stretch of the M4 motorway between Chiswick and Maidenhead Thicket have been analysed for the period from its completion in March 1965 to the end of 1967. Particular attention has been paid to the location of accident...

This report is a compilation of all accidents world-wide involving aircraft in commercial service which resulted in the loss of the airframe or one or more fatality, or both. This information has been gathered in order to present a complete inventory of commercial aircraft accidents. Events involving military action, sabotage, terrorist bombings, ...

A development program was developed to design and improve the Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) transmitter and to improve the installation in the aircraft and its activation subsystem. There were 1135 general aviation fixed wing aircraft accident files...

As part of an emphasis on improving road safety, the Minnesota Department of Transportation seeks to identify the locations where older drivers were over-represented in accident records. This research project reports on the use of three methods to help im...

Various radiochemical methods are discussed for detecting and measuring contamination released from nuclear accidents. The methods can identify radioisotopes in the contamination spread to nearby areas and can estimate fluxes at various locations in the accident area. The data obtained help in evaluating the severity of the ...

This paper addresses the issue of inhalation exposure immediately afterward and for a long time following a nuclear accident. For the cases where either a nuclear weapon burns or explodes prior to nuclear fission, or at locations close to a nuclear reactor accident containing fission products, a major concern is the inhalation of ...

Criticality Accident Alarm System (CAAS) detectors on the cell floor of the X-326 process building at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PORTS) are located at a height of 5 m above the cell floor. It has been suggested that this height be lowered to ...

Pipeline Accident Number: DCA-00-MP-005 Type of System: Hazardous liquid Accident Type: Pipe failure the pipe was not visually examined at this location before the failure. Postaccident Examination to 20 percent below the calculated failure pressure of the pipe at the rupture location, set a refilling

A previous analysis of the X-700 Building Criticality Accident Alarm System (CAAS) showed that some of the building may not adequately be covered by the one building CAAS detector in its current location. This report compares the results of that analysis ...

The U.S. Bureau of Mines has compiled data on the major causes of fatal and nonfatal electrical accidents relating to mining, and their associated costs, for the 1980-85 period. Specific electrical problem areas were identified, allowing future research to be focused on reducing the number of electrical accidents and injuries are provided. The four mining ...

Using a comprehensive database of police-reported accidents in Hawaii, we describe the nature of pedestrian accidents over the period 2002-2005. Approximately 36% of the accidents occur in residential areas, while another 34% occur in business areas. Only 41.7% of the pedestrian accidents occur at intersections. ...

Wild pig (Sus scrofa) collisions with vehicles are known to occur in the United States, but only minimal information describing these accidents has been reported. In an effort to better characterize these accidents, data were collected from 179 wild pig-vehicle collisions from a location in west central South Carolina. Data included ...

This report is a compilation of all accidents world-wide involving aircraft in commercial service which resulted in the loss of the airframe or one or more fatality, or both. This information has been gathered in order to present a complete inventory of commercial aircraft accidents. Events involving military action, sabotage, terrorist bombings, ...

This report is a compilation of all accidents world-wide involving aircraft in commercial service which resulted in the loss of the airframe or one or more fatality, or both. This information has been gathered in order to present a complete inventory of commercial aircraft accidents. Events involving military action, sabotage, terrorist bombings, ...

This report describes a conceptual approach for identifying dominant contributors to risk from maritime shipping of hazardous materials. Maritime transportation accidents are relatively common occurrences compared to more frequently analyzed contributors to public risk. Yet research on maritime safety and pollution incidents has not been guided by a systematic, risk-based ...

This overview paper draws together findings from previous focus group research and studies of 100 individual construction accidents. Pursuing issues raised by the focus groups, the accident studies collected qualitative information on the circumstances of each incident and the causal influences involved. Site based data collection entailed interviews with ...

Considerable past research has explored relationships between vehicle accidents and geometric design and operation of road sections, but relatively little research has examined factors that contribute to accidents at railway-highway crossings. Between 1998 and 2002 in Korea, about 95% of railway accidents occurred at highway-rail grade ...

The knowledge of the leakage behavior of containments beyond design conditions is required for evaluation of severe accident mitigation strategies, risk studies, emergency preparedness, planning and siting. Strategies for managing these severe accidents will be severely hampered unless a methodology for predicting the timing, mode, and ...

This paper provides an overview of recent results derived from the accident history data collected under 112(r) of the Clean Air Act Amendments (the Risk Management Program (RMP) Rule) covering the period 1994-2000, together with a preliminary assessment of the effectiveness of the RMP Rule as a form of Management System Regulation. These were undertaken at the University of ...

First published in 1955, this novel follows the consequences of a scientist�s exposure to a lethal dose of radiation while working on an atomic bomb project at Los Alamos, New Mexico in 1946. Inspired by an actual accident at that location, the book confronts the devastating consequences of radiation while questioning the true cause of the fictionalized ...

The shape reactivity has a significant influence on the rod ejection accident. After the control rod is fully ejected from the core, the neutron flux undergoes a large reduction at the ejected rod location. The corresponding effect on the control reactivity is comparable in magnitude to the Doppler reactivity, and makes a significant contribution to ...

A study of 713 motor vehicle accidents involving 749 children in the city of Vancouver is reported. A control group of 110 children who did not have accidents was included in the concurrent study. Factors investigated were the driver, the vehicle, the weather, the time of day, the day of week, the month, the width of roadway, the ...

This paper describes the methodology used in a quantitative hazard assessment of a nuclear weapon disassembly process. Potential accident sequences were identified using an accident-sequence fault tree based on operational history, weapon safety studies, a hazard analysis team composed of weapons experts, and walkthroughs of the process. The experts ...

Because wind flow and population location are both likely to be influenced by topography, it has been suggested that wind distributions and population distributions ought to be correlated and that the neglect of these correlations in the calculations of the Reactor Safety Study could have resulted in significant underestimates of accident consequences. ...

Cerebrovascular accidents, or strokes, and gliomas are common intraaxial brain lesions in dogs. An accurate differentiation of these two lesions is necessary for prognosis and treatment decisions. The magnetic resonance (MR) imaging characteristics of 21 dogs with a presumed cerebrovascular accident and 17 with a glioma were compared. MR imaging findings ...

This work analyzes the optimal placement of a criticality accident alarm system (CAAS) necessitated by an unexpected accumulation of fissile materials in the filtration system of an idled experimental nuclear reactor. Results using multidimensional deterministic and Monte Carlo methods confirmed the suitability of an existing CAAS placement located in the ...

The 7 papers in the report deal with the following areas: Promotional issues related to accident investigation sites in urban-freeway corridors; Location, design, and operation of accident-investigation sites in urban-freeway corridors; Operational and safety experience with freeway HOV facilities in California; Interstate 394 and the ...

The site location for the ELPHR is described in detail. The reactor itself is discussed with respect to effects of a maximum credible accident on the surrounding countryside and populace. It is concluded that the maximum credible accident delivers a dose in 8 hr to the inhabitants of the nearest residences much less than the ...

At 2:38 p.m., on July 8, 1977, the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company's pump station No. 8, located 17 miles southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska, exploded and then burned. As a result of this accident, one person was killed, five persons were injured slightly, p...

the warning lights for northbound traffic. Safety Board personnel analyzed the videotape and found that the lights at the Choctaw Street crossing were flashing although no trains were present. The Choctaw Street Safety Board Washington, D.C. 20594 Railroad Accident Brief Accident No.: ATL-00-FR-006 Location: Port

In a nuclear accident of even moderate size, locations will inevitably be exposed which do not have adequate monitoring. In these situations nontraditional dosimeters such as brick, tiles or other environmental materials have historically provided measurements against which models of transport and exposure could be tested. Given sufficient speed and ...

An accident that resulted in one fatality occurred on the platform rig Pride 951 located on Samedan Oil Corporation's Platform A, East Cameron Block 332, Lease OCS-G 9478 in the Gulf of Mexico, offshore the State of Louisiana, on June 4, 1996, at approxim...

The psychological stressors and their aftereffects associated with the Three Mile Island accident, the Goiania, Brazil, cesium-137 accident, and the Abadia, Brazil, storage location are summarized and compared. Cross-cultural comparisons of human responses to ionizing radiation are rare. A multidisciplinary methodological approach to ...

Today the oil industry is seeking exploration, production, and business opportunities around the globe. A result is that its employees are traveling more and visiting distant and remote locations. This travel significantly increases the level of their exposure to illness and accident. This paper discusses the information needs for oil company personnel ...

A southbound Union Pacific Railroad (UP) freight train derailed on January 17th, 2007, at approximately 12:20 p.m. The accident occurred near Gore, Oklahoma, at UP Milepost 548.6, on the UP Wagoner Subdivision. A bridge at that location was destroyed. A t...

On May 22, 2006, at 1:52 p.m., a southbound (timetable east) Union Pacific Railroad (UP) freight train symboled MPXWC-22 collided with a pickup truck at a highway-rail grade crossing. The accident occurred at Bella Vista Road, milepost 947.2, located near...

This report summarizes the results of an evaluation of Criticality Accident Alarm System (CAAS) coverage of the X-710 and X-760 buildings and the north half of the X-7745-R storage lot located east of the X-7725 building at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusio...

. The Chernobyl accident revisited, Part II: The state of the nuclear fuel located within the Chernobyl- accident state of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Alienated Zone faunal complexes. Radiat Biol Ecol in the vicinity of the Chernobyl nuclear power station. Sci Total Environ 112:45�56. 35. Cristaldi M, D

This report presents the results of a set of sensitivity studies designed to define the potential range of dose consequences from compressed air/gas system ruptures impacting contaminated tank farm pits. These accidents could potentially result in the uncontrolled release of radioactive hazardous material from tank farms. This includes those pit locations ...

The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was the failure of the flightcrew to properly supervise the loading of the airplane which resulted in the center of gravity being displaced to such an aft location...

Starting with the results of the probabilistic safety study of a nuclear power plant with a HTR-1160, accident consequences and risk assessments have been performed for the site location Schmehausen near Hamm (FRG). The calculations were accomplished usin...