It seems perhaps trite to say that the First World War had an impact on virtually every aspect of life in Britain, but we can see it in the evidence from the worker accident reports. A previous post, for example, has noted how wartime expediencies were probably involved in the death of one worker on […]
Tag Archives | JPS Main
Hidden traumas
Around 20% of the accidents that were investigated by the railway inspectors and featured in this project were, tragically, fatalities. No question, then, that work was stopped for that individual. The remaining 80% of investigated accidents were, then, injuries; many of them were serious, involving amputations or other life-changing wounds, and no doubt stopping work […]