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Amtrak

Products: n/a. Risk band: Low   RobotRisk index 13.2/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 40th percentile of 62 other companies.

Analyst brief

The register carries one entry for Amtrak: the December 2017 Cascades Train 501 derailment near DuPont, Washington, a fatality-severity event tied to Positive Train Control not yet being active on the route. Index sits at 13.4 with a percentile of 41.9, placing the carrier in the low band relative to the full set despite the severity-5 rating of its sole listed event. The record is a single catastrophic incident rather than a pattern, and its documentation lineage is regulator-driven, consistent with an NTSB-investigated passenger rail derailment. No trajectory can be established from one data point; the record reflects a discrete safety-system-implementation failure, not a recurring operational issue.

Entries by year and severity

012017 S5: 1117
S1S2S3S4S5

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Incident log (1 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S512/18
2017 · 07:34 PT
fatality DuPont, WA, USACascades train 501 DuPont, WA derailment - Positive Train Control not yet activated · 1 train (multiple cars) / 3 fatalities… NWPB

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