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BY THE NUMBERS transportation sector and towing industry. For 2017, the rying freight. Incidents where only a crew member death, towing industry fatality rate is 6.2, which is less than half injury, or operational tank barge spill occurred, without a the transportation sector but almost double the rate for all precipitating or associated towing vessel or barge incident, fatal work injuries. It’s a dangerous world out there. are not included in this measure since they are included

On the environmental front, the USCG reported 36,046 in other sections of the report. Chart 7 shows the number gallons of oil were spilled as a result of 55 tank barge pollu- of towing vessel incidents reported and classi