The statistics are at http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/publications/national_transportation_statistics/html/table_02_42.html http://www.

The statistics are at http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/publications/national_transportation_statistics/html/table_02_42.html http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pub... . Eyeballing, it looks like 10 fatalities per 100 million passenger train-miles and about 1,300 injuries per 100 million passenger train-miles. That's indeed ~1 injury per 100,000 passenger miles. And "Passenger fatalities and Injured persons include passengers on trains only" Looking at http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/publicsite/Prelim.aspx http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/publicsite/Prel... , for 'Annual Report 2012 – Preliminary', Table 1-3, and picking 2010 as representative: 41 non-fatal conditions for Train Accidents Excluding Highway-Rail Crossing (HRC) Incidents 112 non-fatal conditions for Highway-Rail Crossing (HRC) Incidents 1,213 non-fatal conditions for Other Incidents, Excluding HRC I can find that "Other Incidents" means "not train accidents or crossing incidents" ... but I don't know what that means. Knife fights in the observation lounge? A high incidence of getting drunk, falling, and knocking oneself on the head? Do the European numbers use the same categories? If we leave out that large but unknown category, it looks about 10x safer than the numbers sandworm101 gave. Still worse than Germany by a factor of 5.