A Little on DC Hazardous Materials Incidents
Overview
Summary visualization of incidents involving vehichles carrying Hazardous Materials to Washington, D.C.
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The data depicted here show a few highlights on vehicular incidents involving hazardous materials in the District of Columbia. These data were collected from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Incident Reports Database.
The dataset contains detail including:
- Shipment origin
- Carrier details
- Hazardous material type
- Quantity released
- Total fatalities and injuries
More detail on field definitions can be found in the official Incident Reports Database data dictionary.
Getting Started
There are plenty of opportunities for further exploration and analysis - here are a few points to get you started:
- What drove the spikes in 1983 and 1990?
- Are damages (total incident cost) concentrated in a single year or state or in a few years or states, or was the total cost evenly spread across the 45 years we have available?
- Which materials or class of materials are more likely to be involved in an incident? [not pictured]
- What are the most common causes of incidents? [not pictured]
- Are incidents more likely to occur during a certain time of day? [not pictured]
Additional Details
Fields Used in This Visualization
Hazardous materials summary with individual visualizations identified
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A number of fields were used to make the dataset summary visualization:
- Incidents by State
- Row count
- Origin state
- Total Incidents
- Row count
- Total Monetary Damages
- Total amount of damages
- Annual Average
- Row count
- Date of incident
- Annual Incidents
- Row count
- Date of incident
Data Owner
These data were reported by the District of Columbia to the U.S. Department of Transportation. J. Albert Bowden II is the current maintainer of this dataset.
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