NRS-15906 | Employee Accident Reports

Full description

These handwritten registers record details of employees treated by the Ambulance Corps for injuries sustained in the workplace. The following information is recorded: the date and time of treatment; employee number, employee's name; occupation; brief description of the injuries and treatment given.

Also recorded is a list of equipment received and used in the Ambulance Room as well as a tally of the number of cases treated each day.

The first volume is in chronological order. The remaining are in 'thumb indexed' books and arranged chronologically within the first letter of the employee's surname.

It would appear that there are no preceding records in this series as the first item is clearly marked 'book 1' . The series continued beyond 1929 (as the last volume refers to book 5) There is no evidence of the end date of the series.

Custody History
From 1955 until 2000 the State Rail Authority of New South Wales maintained an 'in house archives' consisting of the archival records of Authority, its predecessor agencies and the private railway companies taken over by the government. The date ranges of the records were from 1849 until 2000. When the decision was made to close the 'State Rail Archives' the parts of the collection that were required as State Archives were transferred to the State Records Authority of NSW. Those record series were incorporated into the State Records series system of archives control and were re-numbered.

This series was formerly part of the State Rail Archives collection where it was identified as series R203. It may have been reviewed in the State Rail Archives as series R203 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.