The determinants of fishing vessel accident severity

• Published in: Accident Analysis & Prevention
• Main Author: Jin, Di
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Fishing vessel safety; Crew injury; Accident severity; Ordered probit model; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1912/6425

Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2014. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Elsevier for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Accident Analysis & Prevention 66 (2014): 1-7, doi:10.1016/j.aap.2014.01.001. The study examines the determinants of fishing vessel accident severity in the Northeastern United States using vessel accident data from the U.S. Coast Guard for 2001-2008. Vessel damage and crew injury severity equations were estimated separately utilizing the ordered probit model. The results suggest that fishing vessel accident severity is significantly affected by several types of accidents. Vessel damage severity is positively associated with loss of stability, sinking, daytime wind speed, vessel age, and distance to shore. Vessel damage severity is negatively associated with vessel size and daytime sea level pressure. Crew injury severity is also positively related to the loss of vessel stability and sinking. This research was supported by the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA) through the Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region (CINAR) under NOAA Cooperative Agreement No. NA09OAR4320129 WHOI Subpoint 50.