The International Labour Organization estimates that – each year – around 2.3 million people around the world die as a result of workplace accidents or…
In three weeks’ time, on 27 March 2023, we’ll be releasing another update to our database of accidents to British and Irish railway staff before…
Happy International Women’s Day 2021! This seems like a good moment to look forward to some of the data we’re working on behind the scenes,…
In last week’s Disability History Month blog post, we looked at a case which showed staff with hearing loss were employed by the railway companies.…
Earlier this year, we added to our database an additional 17,000 cases of accident to British & Irish railway workers before 1939. Sadly, this means…
Our project is made by everyone who has been involved – particularly the volunteer teams at the institutions involved doing the hard work of transcribing…
We’ve already blogged about a couple of cases of multiple accidents: when our database has shown a worker had more than one accident. We’ve considered…
Whilst blog posts have largely reflected our project sources and focus, and looked at mainline railways in the UK and Ireland, this doesn’t capture all…
This guest blog post, from Pauline Figliolini, came about after Pauline had found the project and enquired about early staff accident records. Sadly we didn’t…
Some days on the railways were worse than others – in total, and for particular grades of workers. The 19th of January was one which…