Accident Reports

Scope and Contents Contains annual and monthly accident reports and subject files maintained by the Public Utilities Commission pertaining to railroad operations in South Dakota between 1958 and 1979. Railroad companies were required to file monthly accident/incident reports in compliance with Federal Railroad Administration regulations (49 C.F.R. 225) and the Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1970 (49 U.S.C. 20109). These reports document incidents involving occupational illnesses of employees, damage to...

Scope and Contents Consists of railroad accident reports and related telegrams and correspondence filed with the Public Utilities Commission (previously the Board of Railroad Commissioners) between 1931 and 1973. Early reports include monthly accident reports for cases not resulting from the operation of trains or engines and irregular reports of incidents occurring from the operation of trains or engines filed pursuant to Section 9689 of the South Dakota Revised Code of 1919. For accidents “occurring in the...

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This accession contains records created and maintained by the City of Huron Police Department from 1912 to 1957. Records include: daily logs, activity summary books, radio logs, sleeper records, police matron records, city jail registers, receipt books, correspondence, and scrapbooks of newspaper clippings.