Perhaps surprisingly, the question of literacy doesn’t seem to come up in the worker accident reports too frequently. It appears as though in most cases…
We’ve featured a burns case in the past – in that instance, it was electrical burns. But often lumped together with burns are scalds, something…
In past blog posts we’ve discussed some of the cases of workers known to have had more than one accident – a theme to which…
In a timely guest post, Sandra Gittins draws on some of her research into railway workers on the Western Front of the First World War…
We’re going beyond the edges of the project in this post, to look at a passenger crash and its aftermath. This week it’s the anniversary…
After many years of concern, the 1902 Prevention of Accidents Rules introduced several measures to improve railway worker safety. One was the requirement to cover…
As we’re heading towards Halloween, it seems only fitting that we’ve a supernatural case, involving an accident to a railway worker, to bring to your…
17 October is National Burns Awareness Day, organised by the British Burn Association, a charity set up in 1968 to educate and encourage research into…
In many of the cases found in our database the Railway Inspectorate report provides an attribution of responsibility for the accident. Around a quarter of…
Sandwiched in the pages of the blue-bound volume are tattered and faded place-markers, paper browned with age, sometimes torn or crumbled to the point of…