American railroad passenger injury and fatality rates since 1976

From the previously mentioned FRA data:

Year	Passenger Fatalities	Passenger Injuries	Passenger Ridership (millions)	Million Passenger Miles	Million Passenger miles per fatality	Million Passenger miles per injury
1976	5	998	124.2	5601	1120	5.6
1977	4	503	179.2	8078	2020	16.1
1978	13	1252	176.5	6836	525.85	5.46
1979	6	1001	308.5	11663	1943.8	11.7
1980	4	593	317.6	11871	2968	20.0
1981	4	409	300.8	11815	2954	28.9
1982	9	387	285.1	10603	1178.1	27.4
1983	4	502	291.9	14151	3538	28.2
1984	12	1000	309.6	10829	902.42	11
1985	3	657	338.2	10909	3636.3	16.6
1986	4	686	333.7	11421	2855	16.6
1987	16	475	336.4	12108	757	25.5
1988	2	337	369.5	12620	6310	37.4
1989	8	399	375.9	13600	1700	34.1
1990	3	473	373.0	13665	4555	28.9
1991	8	382	369.1	14004	1751	36.7
1992	3	411	366.9	13764	4588	33.5
1993	58	559	371.6	13777	237.53	24.6
1994	5	497	393.6	14046	2809	28
1995	0	573	385.8	13719	0	23.9
1996	12	513	397.4	13587	1132	26.5
1997	6	601	408.6	14134	2355.7	23.5
1998	4	535	440.0	14596	3649	27.3
1999	14	481	464.9	14857	1061.2	30.9
2000	4	658	501.8	16142	4036	25
2001	3	746	517.2	15657	5219	21.0
2002	7	877	503.9	15167	2166.7	17.3
2003	3	727	494.3	15562	5187.3	21.4
2004	3	703	513.3	15395	5131.7	21.9
2005	16	957	523.4	15779	986	16.5
2006	2	936	602.3	16961	8481	18.1
2007	5	1514	644.6	18864	3773	12.5
2008	24	1329	664.8	19972	832.17	15.0
2009	3	1201	640.8	19204	6401.3	16.0
2010	3	1365	637.8	19805	6601.7	14.5
2011	6	1489	654.1	20242	3373.7	14
Total	286	26726	14916.3	501004	1751.76	18.7

Do note that there is some screwiness in places (for instance, the jump in ridership between 1978 and 1979). Reporting definitions and requirements may also differ between the US and other nations, so keep that in mind for comparisons.

Update July 16: Courtesy of John Stolberg, a pair of graphs showing the five year average injury and fatality rates. As noted previously, the risk of injury seems to be increasing, but fatalities are steady.