FRA does not include suicide data (as defined in § 225.5) in its periodic summaries of data on the number of injuries and illnesses associated with railroad operations. FRA will maintain suicide data in a database that is not publicly accessible. Suicide data will not be available on FRA’s Web site for individual reports or downloads. Suicide data will be available to the public in aggregate format on FRA’s Web site and via requests under the Freedom of Information Act.

Terms Used In 49 CFR 225.41

  • Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. Source: OCC

[75 FR 68909, Nov. 9, 2010]