END OF YEAR SUMMARY — 1986
1986
FIELD INCIDENT LOG
Number Date Park Incident
86-1 8/28 Wrangell-St. Elias Missing hunters. SAR
86-1A 8/28 Wrangell-St. Elias Hunters found
86-2 8/30 Yosemite Climbing fatality
86-3 9/2 Shenandoah SAR
86-4 9/2 Dinosaur Body found
86-5 8/31 Glacier Fall, fatality
86-6 8/23 Shenandoah Arrest, homicide
86-3A 9/2 Shenandoah Subjects found
86-7 9/1 Yosemite Fall, fatality
86-8 8/14 Grand Teton Body found
86-9 9/4 Glen Canyon Drowning
86-10 9/4 Lake Mead Drowning
86-11 9/6 Blue Ridge Auto Fatality
86-12 9/10 Grand Teton Drowning
86-13 9/11 Glacier Bear mauling
86-14 9/12 Rocky Mountain Fall, Fatal
86-15 9/13 Glen Canyon Boat accident, Fatal
86-16 9/13 Yukon-Charley Air crash
86-17 9/13 Grand Teton Drowning
86-18 9/21 Blue Ridge Homicide
86-18A 9/21 Blue Ridge Homicide
86-19 9/23 Blue Ridge (outside park) Air crash: 3 fatal
86-20 9/24-25 Cape Cod Oil spill
86-21 10/7 Yellowstone Fatality: Bear-related?
86-22 9/28 Buffalo Auto Fatality
86-23 9/29 Amistad Drowning?
86-24 10/5 Gateway OD
86-25 10/8 Biscayne Drugs/Shots Fired
86-26 10/13 Colonial Double Homicide
86-27 10/14 Canyon de Chelly Fatality
86-28 10/15 Haleakala Arson
86-29 10/16 Statue of Liberty Parachutist
86-30 10/16 Statue of Liberty Assist other agency
86-31 10/20 Cape Cod Apparent Suicide
86-32 10/24 Glover Archibald Pk Dead Body
86-33 10/18 Sleeping Bear Dunes Electrocution, non-fatality
86-34 10/24 Lake Mead Fatality
86-35 11/9 Joshua Tree Suicide
86-36 8/14 Grand Canyon Victim recovery
86-37 11/11 Amistad Drowning
86-38 11/11 Golden Gate Death
86-39 11/13 Valley Forge Death
86-40 11/15 Delaware Water Gap Suicide
86-41 11/15 Lake Mead Homicide
86-42 11/15 Channel Islands Diving Fatality
86-43 11/21 Cape Cod Bomb threat
86-44 11/22 Valley Forge Fatality - heart attack
86-45 11/24 Martin Luther King Homicide
86-46 12/3 Saipan Typhoon
86-47 12/7 Gateway Suicide
86-48 12/8 Gateway Suicide
86-49 12/8 Big Bend SAR for employee
86-50 12/11 Sleeping Bear Dunes Air crash w/ Fatality
86-51 12/14 Voyageurs Fire: VC burned down
86-52 12/14 Yosemite Fire: R&T building
86-53 12/19 Cape Cod Whale beaching
86-54 12/31 Hot Springs Rape/abduction
86-55 12/31 Lake Mead Drowning
86-56 12/31 Golden Gate Homicide
86-49A 12/17 Big Bend Drowning
A7615-610
MAR 18 1987
Memorandum
To: Regional Directors
Attention: Regional Safety Managers
From: Chief, Branch of Safety Management
Subject: 1986 - Visitor Fatalities
Attached are the National Park Service 1986 Visitor Fatality statistics.
The National Park Service experienced a significant decrease in the number
of fatalities compared to last year.
Please check your records to ensure a DI-134 has been completed for each of
the fatalities. Please note that on occasions, no fatality may have been
determined non-chargeable to the National Park Service and will not be a
part of this list.
If you have any questions or discrepancies, please contact Bobbie Shumate
on FTS 343-7017.
/s/ Kay Doerr for
Richard L. Wllburn, Chief
Branch of Safety Management
Attachment
bcc:
610-Reading File
Bill Halainen, Ranger Activities, WASO
Regional Safety Managers
FNP:BSHUMATE:rrb:3/17/87
Disk "Rolanda" #10
DN: 716
VISITOR FATALITIES
CALENDAR YEARS 1976 - 1986 INCLUSIVE
NUMBER OF
NO. OF NUMBER OF FATALITIES PER
YEAR VISITS FATALITIES MILLION VISITS
1976 267,827,100 153 0.57
1977 260,500,000 190 0.72
1978 283,090,141 190 0.67
1979 281,485,305 194 0.68
1980 300,324,000 214 0.71
1981 329,663,300 185 0.56
1982 334,448,015 189 0.57
1983 335,556,848 157 0.46
1984 332,520,283 155 0.46
1985 346,398,144 148 0.42
1986 364,700,092 135 0.37
Number of Fatalities by Causes
Calendar Years 1976 to 1986
Cause 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
Motor Vehicle 56 63 65 76 65 69 48 50 44 38 47
Drowning 60 77 81 68 83 61 100 63 57 53 44
Falls 27 36 35 34 41 29 18 27 23 31 21
Falling Obj. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0
Lightning 1 1 0 1 2 1 2 0 0 3 1
Bears 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1
Bicycle 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Burns 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
Boating 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 2
Acc. Shooting 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Exposure 3 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 3 0
Str-by-Obj. 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
Asphyxiation 0 5 3 0 0 0 5 0 5 1 2
Airplane Crash 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Missing 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 3 0 1
Rock Slide 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Avalanche 3 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Land Slide 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Buffalo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Deer 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kayaking 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Miscellaneous 0 4 2 13 20 23 10 10 13 12 14
Pedestrian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Ultra-light 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
TOTALS 153 190 190 194 213 185 189 157 155 148 135
NUMBER OF FATALITIES BY AGE GROUPS
CALENDAR YEARS 1976 TO 1986 INCLUSIVE
YEAR 0-12 13-25 26-40 41-50 51-60 OVER 60 UNKNOWN
1976 5 78 41 19 4 6 0
1977 19 85 45 8 5 12 16
1978 12 101 49 13 9 3 3
1979 16 80 57 10 11 5 15
1980 6 100 55 14 6 12 21
1981 9 70 54 11 7 12 22
1982 6 92 40 12 7 12 20
1983 5 54 54 14 9 12 9
1984 6 64 48 8 7 15 7
1985 5 61 46 18 5 11 2
1986 2 42 43 16 8 15 9
VISITOR ACCIDENT FATALITIES BY MONTHS
CALENDAR YEARS 1976 TO 1986 INCLUSIVE
1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
January 7 5 7 5 4 6 9 6 5 8 9
February 6 8 5 7 5 1 12 4 10 7 3
March 6 5 8 12 13 9 5 10 15 7 5
April 14 14 15 23 20 15 7 8 10 6 9
May 21 24 28 28 23 22 22 27 15 22 12
June 23 29 35 30 31 41 27 13 23 26 15
July 27 45 34 20 40 35 37 33 27 24 29
August 25 21 20 35 33 27 40 21 26 18 31
September 11 10 12 20 18 5 15 12 8 16 14
October 4 21 17 8 10 11 7 9 9 6 6
November 5 5 3 3 13 4 4 9 4 4 1
December 4 3 6 3 4 9 4 5 2 4 1
Undetermined - - - - - - - - 1 0 0
TOTALS 153 190 190 194 214 185 189 157 155 148 135
VISITOR FATALITIES - 1986
BY REGION (and Cause)
Drowning MVA Falls Other Totals
Alaska Region-------------- 4 0 2 2 8
Mid-Atlantic Region-------- 4 1 2 0 7
Midwest Region------------- 2 0 0 0 2
National Capital Region---- 1 1 0 0 2
North Atlantic Region------ 2 1 0 0 3
Pacific Northwest Region--- 0 0 2 4 6
Southeast Region----------- 6 22 0 2 30
Southwest Region----------- 4 2 1 4 11
Rocky Mountain Region------ 12 11 7 5 35
Western Region------------- 9 9 7 6 31
TOTALS 44 47 21 23 135
VISITOR FATALITIES - 1986
BY PARK
AREA DROWNINGS MOTOR VEHICLES FALLS MISCELLANEOUS
Amistad-------------- 2 - - 3
Big Bend NP---------- - 1 - 1
Black Canyon--------- - - 1 -
Blue Ridge Pkwy------ 1 7 - 1
Buffalo NR----------- 1 1 - -
Canaveral------------ - - - 1
Canyon De Chelly----- - - 1 -
Cape Cod------------- - 1 - -
Cape Hatteras-------- 1 - - -
Cape Lookout--------- 1 - - -
Channel Islands------ 1 - - -
Chattahooche--------- 2 - - -
Chickasaw------------ 1 - - -
Colorado Monument---- - 1 - -
Crater Lake---------- - - - 1
Delaware Water Gap--- 1 - - -
Denali--------------- - - 2 2
Devil Tower---------- - - 1 -
Gateway NRA---------- 2 - - -
Gettysburg----------- - 1 - -
Glacier-------------- - 12 1
Glen Canyon---------- 9 - - 2
Golden Gate---------- 1 - - -
Grand Canyon--------- - - 1 1
Grand Teton---------- 2 6 2 -
Great Falls---------- 1 - - -
Great Smoky---------- - 9 - -
Gulf Islands--------- - 1 - -
Indiana Dunes-------- 1 - - -
Joshua Tree---------- - 2 - -
Lake Clark----------- 3 - - -
Lake Mead------------ 6 3 - 5
Mt. Rainier---------- - - 1 -
Natchez Trace Pkwy--- 1 5 - -
New River Gorge------ 2 - 1 -
North Cascades------- - - 1 1
Olympic-------------- - - - 2
Prince William Forest - 1 - -
Rocky Mtn NP--------- 1 - 1 -
Saguaro-------------- - 1 - -
Sequoia/Kings-------- 1 - - -
St. Croix------------ 1 - - -
Upper Delaware------- 1 - 1 -
Whiskeytown---------- - 1 - -
Wrangell- St. Ellas-- 1 - - -
Yellowstone NP------- - 3 - 1
Yosemite------------- - 2 6 -
Zion----------------- - - - 1
TOTAL 44 47 21 23