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Rates for train accidents, employee casualties, trespasser incidents and highway-rail grade crossing incidents all showed reductions compared with the first 10 months of 2004.According to the FRA data, the train accident rate was down 11.3 percent, while the employee casualty rate was down 13.9 percent. The grade crossing incident rate was down 8.2 percent and the trespasser incident rate was down 2.9 percent. Both the employee casualty rate and the grade crossing incident rate are on track to be the lowest on record.Improvements also were reported in most major causes of train accidents, with the number caused by human factors down 14.2 percent; equipment problems, down 17.4 percent; and signal problems down 13.8 percent.The FRA also reported that the number of yard accidents had declined by 12.3 percent while the number of derailments was down by 7.1 percent.Source: Press Release