#OnThisDay 1906 Barry Railway crane driver R Mallett was injured at #Barry, #Glamorgan, #Wales. He put his left arm through the spokes of the crane wheel to oil it, just before the crane was set in motion. His arm was badly squeezed. He was off work for 11 days. #Railway200
#OnThisDay 1904 Cambrian Railways carriage builder William Ouzman was injured at #Oswestry, #Shropshire, #England. Repairing a horse box, the upper door fell, cutting Ouzman's head & injuring his right thumb & left leg. He was off work for 105 days. #Railway200
#OnThisDay 1899 Taff Vale Railway porter & reliefman Morris Davies was injured at Ystrad, #Glamorgan, #Wales. A tub of fish in a luggage van slipped & fell on his foot, injuring his toe. He was off work for 21 days, receiving 14s compensation (c.£97 now). #Railway200
Not a staff case, but a demonstration of the richness of the Railway Work, Life & Death project database: #OnThisDay 1863 a passenger train collided with a goods train at #Darlington, #England. It's found within the North Eastern Railway records. #Railway200 📷 British Newspaper Archive
According to the report: 'The 6:10 PM Passenger train from York to Newcastle came into collision with a train of laden wagons from Rosedale, which, in consequence of the points leading into the Siding into which they were intended to be shunted, not having been properly attended
to by the Guard, had run forward on the S & D Main Line and crossed the NE Main Line as the passenger train was coming up. It being dawn at the time and the wagons, having no lights attached, the Signalman on duty at the Crossing did not see the wagons coming towards him until
it was too late to prevent a collision.' Passengers A Mottie, Potter, Eliza Dodds, Dougall, A Whitfield-Hall, R Abrahams, Abrahams, & Herdman were injured. It wasn't a good day for the NER either - they suffered another passenger crash, at #Leeds, also in our data! #Railway200
#OnThisDay 1916 Cardiff Railway capstanman Robert Jones was injured at Atlantic Wharf, #Cardiff, #Wales. Turning a GWR wagon on a turntable, when the turntable stopped, the wagon moved, crushing his right hand little finger. #Railway200
#OnThisDay 1858 North Eastern Railway goods guard Thomas Bowman was injured at #Darlington, #England. Coupling wagons going to the Stockton & Darlington Railway, his head was crushed between goods projecting beyond the wagon ends. He was sent to #Newcastle infirmary. #Railway200
When Bowman reached #Newcastle infirmary, he might have met fellow North Eastern Railway employee, porter Robert Ramsey, also sent there. He too was injured #OnThisDay 1858, in Newcastle, when his leg was crushed between a horse-drawn wagon & a bench in a warehouse. #Railway200
#OnThisDay 1921 Rhymney Railway goods guard Charles Bridgeman was killed at Bedlinog, #Glamorgan, #Wales. 15 wagons were pushed up the colliery branch; Bridgeman was riding in the 3rd wagon. As the wagons derailed, he jumped, but fell under the train. #Railway200