§ 33.14. Accident report forms.

 Reports shall be made on prescribed accident report forms of the Commission (UCTA-1, UCTA-2, UCTA-7 and Statement Form UCTA-31), as follows:

   (1)  UCTA-1. If no reportable accident has occurred during a month the carrier shall submit a report to that effect on Form UCTA-1. Such report shall be mailed to the Commission on or before the 30th day of the month following.

   (2)  UCTA-2. Reports of accidents to employes, passengers, trespassers, and others and nontrain accidents to employes, passengers, and travellers not on trains shall be made on Form UCTA-2 and shall be filed with the Commission on or before the 30th day of the month following that in which the reportable accident occurred. Form UCTA-2 is so prepared that it corresponds to the United States Department of Transportation Form FRA F 6180-54, with respect to spacing, and it may be prepared as a carbon copy of the Form FRA F 6180-54. A carbon copy of Form LIBC-344 to the Workmen’s Compensation Bureau will be accepted by the Commission in lieu of Form UCTA-2 in filing a report of reportable nontrain accidents involving employes injured and incapacitated for more than three days. Accidents to be reported on Form UCTA-2 do not include those occurring in connection with new construction in repair shops, engine houses, freight or passenger stations, or accidents at coal and water stations which do not occur directly as the result of the operation of a train or trains. Reports shall be filed of accidents resulting in injury to employes while engaged in repairing track, work on or about bridges, telephone, telegraph and catenary wires, and the like or of any similar nontrain accident, if incapacitation is for more than three days in the aggregate during the ten days immediately following the accident. Reportable injuries to employes arising from the operation of section motor or hand cars (equipment chargeable to Account 37, Roadway Machines) shall be reported on Form UCTA-2 or by carbon copy of Form LIBC-344.

   (3)  UCTA-7. Highway-railroad crossing at grade accidents shall be reported on Form UCTA-7, and shall be filed with the Commission on or before the 30th day of the month following that in which the accident occurred. All accidents which occur at public highway crossings and involve damage to crossing gates or flashing-light signals by a highway vehicle which does not collide with an engine or train shall be listed and reported on Form UCTA-31 at the end of each month, or, in lieu of filing such statement, the carrier may file an individual report of each such accident on Form UCTA-7. If report of an accident is submitted on Form UCTA-7, a report of the accident on Form UCTA-2 is not required. Accidents involving highway collisions between section motor cars or hand cars and highway vehicles or pedestrians at public or private highway crossing shall be reported on Form UCTA-7. All accidents which occur at public or private crossings and involve collision between engines or trains and vehicles or pedestrians shall be reported on Form UCTA-7, irrespective of the extent of casualties or the amount of damages to carrier property.

   (4)  UCTA-31. Monthly reports of nontrain accidents which involve damage to crossing gates and flashing-light signals and are defined in §  33.12(a) (relating to reportable accidents) shall be reported on Form UCTA-31 and shall be filed with the Commission on or before the 30th day of the following month. In lieu of filing monthly statements on Form UCTA-31, the carrier, if it so desires, may file individual reports on Form UCTA-7 of such accidents occurring during the month.

PROTECTION OF CROSSINGS AT GRADE

   The provisions of these § §  33.21—33.23 were formerly designated Rule 2 by the Commission.