Explore key statistics related to transportation of dangerous goods in Canada. These tables provide data on dangerous goods incidents by road, rail, marine and air transportation and at facilities. These data sets include new yearly data and a restatement of 2017 data as a result of a validation…
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Product source: Transport Canada
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Product source: Transport Canada
There were 464 incidents involving dangerous goods—307 releases and 157 anticipated releases—that required a report to Transport Canada in 2018.
The information comes from the Dangerous Goods Accident Information System, which has been updated with 2018 data.…
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Product source: Transport Canada
This table presents the number of reportable dangerous goods incidents, by month and mode as well as by reportable or anticipated release. Data is available from 2014 to 2021.
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Product source: Transport Canada
This table presents annual number of dangerous goods incidents involving petroleum where a release occurred for Road, Rail, Marine and Air transportation modes and at Facilities, by commodity and characteristics of releases. Annual data is available from 1999 to 2021.
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Product source: Transport Canada
This table presents the incident count of dangerous goods by Road, Rail, Marine and Air transportation modes and at Facilities. Annual data is available from 1987 to 2021.
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Product source: Transport Canada
This report presents the annual number of dangerous goods incidents from 1987 to 2021 by province and territory for Road, Rail, Marine and Air modes of transportation and at Facilities.
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Product source: Transport Canada
This table presents the incident severity assessment indicators provided by the number of fatalities, injured persons and severity levels reported during the transportation and handling of dangerous goods by Road, Rail, Marine and Air transportation modes and at Facilities. Annual data is…
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Product source: Transport Canada
This table presents the number of incidents recorded at facilities during storing, loading, unloading, packing or unpacking dangerous goods in a package type for the purposes of, in the course of or following transportation. Annual data is available from 1987 to 2021.
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Product source: Transport Canada
This table presents the statistics on commodities involved in incidents during the transportation and handling of dangerous goods by Road, Rail, Marine and Air transportation modes and at Facilities reported by selected key variables. Annual data is available from 1991 to 2021.
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Product source: Transport Canada
This table presents incident key variables for top-most dangerous goods, package types and initiating events. Statistics are based on Means of Containment which means that an incident may include several occurrences. Annual data is available from 2002 to 2021.