An accident causation model for the railway industry: Application of the model to 80 rail accident investigation reports from the UK.

Highlights: [•] An accident causation model for the railway industry is proposed. [•] The model is applied to 80 railway accident reports from the UK. [•] Its usefulness in explaining how an accident/incident or near miss occurs is proved. [•] Several interesting relations between the model’s components are revealed. [•] Results from this study can be transferred to other safety-critical domains. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]